feastingonroadkill:

“RapidShare in particular has become massively popular, with traffic demand pushing it into the top 20 list of most trafficked websites on the internet, Alexa reports. The site holds a reported 10 petabytes of files on its systems, which have the capability to handle up to three million users at any one time. Users with premium accounts enjoy unlimited download speeds while the downloads of freetards are throttled and restricted more generally.”

The Great And Noble War On Filesharing. Asynchronous warfare played out before your very eyes.