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Rapidshare’s Latest Marketing Move: Prepaid Cards
After the introduction of new sections with which the service hopes to attract the young segment even more (Rapidgames and the yet-to-be-released Rapidmusic), Rapidshare tries to make money off prepaid cards Over the last month some debates have become quite ardent – the amazing growth of file hosting services such as RapidShare or Megaupload prompted people to see in it the end of p2p or at least to compare the two most popular ways through which people currently download movies, music, eBooks or other types of files. About the level that Rapidshare.com has reached tells us the latest move of the site – after offering premium accounts for quite some time now, the service will be selling prepaid cards through retail outlets in Europe, Gulli reports. This means users can purchase membership cards of various denominations from one to 12 months.
Continue reading »UK2’s email still borked
Migration worthy of an Attenborough doc Customers of web hosting firm UK2.net are putting up with yet another day without emails.…
Continue reading »MediaSentry scandal continues
Private ‘investigator’ MediaSentry, fired by the RIAA , has been disgraced in Canada, the US and Holland, that we know of. Bought by SafeNet for cash and stock worth $20 million in 2005 and then sold to rival MediaDefender at a knock-down, flea-market price of $136,000 in cash and a promise of another $800,000, it reappeared in Canada and Australia. “I wanted to give you a heads-up that MediaSentry (yes the very same discredited a**holes! ) are still up to their old tricks here in Canada — Ontario at least!” — said a p2pnet reader, who included a copy of a threatening email s/he’d received.
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