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Originally Posted by Daithi

You are misrepresenting their business model. They don't rent disk space to people and provide code to access it.

Here is what they do. They allow people to load anything they want on their servers for free, and they allow everyone else to download those files for free. However, downloaders can also pay a fee to download the files quicker if they want. That is how they make money. Plus, if you are one of the people that uploads files that other people download a lot then they give you free access to their quicker downloads.

So far, it's giving free space and bandwith. Which is not even close to "promote piracy".

Originally Posted by Daithi

I know how their system works because I've used their free service before. I was stealing. I guess I'm just one of those weird people who is dishonest enough to steal, but honest enough to admit it.

I've used a similar premium service, and I did not steal anything. I did not even "share" nothing, because my files was kept private.
It was just the fastest way to send one hundred of large photographs to a guy with the best printer I've ever seen. He used Fed Ex for the other way around: is FedEx promoting piracy also?

Originally Posted by Daithi

I'm not going to lie to others, or to myself, and try to justify stealing based on some convoluted logic about an illegitimate business occasionally getting listed in the yellow pages, or a legitimate file occasionally getting listed on Rapidshare.

Again: will you please give us numbers? Haow much is, exactly "occasionally"?
And, most of all, how can you be certain of those numbers?
I beg your pardon for my English, but I assure you that saying "Rapidshare does not promote piracy" I'm not justifying stealing at all.