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@Moriendor — Funny thing; Rapidshare hosting service disagrees with what you say. There IS a waiting period between downloads for free users (https://www.rapidshare.com/#!buyrapids — click on "learn more").
What you claim to be trivial, or "boring, slow and stupid and totally 1990s" is actually just plain wrong.
Downloading a 14GB file via any of the file hosting services is a long and drawn out process that is anything but trivial (more like a nightmare). That is the real world of 2011.
*sigh*
1) There is no waiting period at the moment on Rapidshare. Trust me on that. They removed it a few months back and probably never bothered to update their site so they can reinstate the waiting requirement at any time at their own leisure (like if/when the bandwidth exceeds certain caps or something like that).
2) As I said even if there were a waiting period it would be trivial to work around it and Rapidshare isn't the only hosting service either. Plus as I said most "serious" pirates are too cheap to buy games but they are not too cheap to often have multiple file hosting service subscriptions so they won't have to wait anyway.
3) To illustrate all of the above, I just added a warez version of Skyrim (I own the legal copy so let's consider this a backup download for testing and demo purposes ) to my JDownloader.
Just check the attached screenshot.
As you can see I took the screenshot after the first 500MB chunk had already finished downloading. I'm downloading at max speed as a free user. There was no waiting time between chunk no. 1 and 2. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Skyrim is a little over ~5GB and when the download started it said approximately 1hr:03m until the download is finished so you could download a 14GB game in ~3 hours with my type of connection (12MBit ADSL).
That's the reality of piracy in 2011. All of this took me under two minutes. Find link to container file. Add container file to JDownloader. Go.
It doesn't get any easier or more convenient than that.
That's why (PC) piracy wins.
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