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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is a new MMO on the market, but has probably the fastest growing guides supply. There’s already more than a dozen different guides available for download, some are leveling guides, some are gold guides. Even before the game was officially released — meaning it was still in beta — people were writing leveling guides and then passing them along as complete guides for a finished game. Lots of players are therefore suspicious when it comes to buying Warhammer Online guides, and for a good reason.
Many people search Google and other websites for free downloads of leveling, gold and strategy guides. The number one website which people believe to host guides is Rapidshare. But not only is downloading those guides illegal, so is uploading. It’s also against the Terms of Use of such websites like Rapidshare, and you should avoid such practice.
Most of the authors who write these Warhammer guides are just players like you and me, but with huge experience from the game who want to share their knowledge and insight. They have invested a lot of time into playing the game as well as writing the guide, and making money off of it was not necessarily on their mind. Most of them thought about giving the guides away for free, but their time is dear so they decided to ask for a few bucks to pay off a bill or two. If you already paid for the game and you are paying a monthly subscription, it’s not such a huge investment to get a leveling or a gold guide. In the long run, it will pay off many times and downloading those guides from Rapidshare or other file hosting websites illegally is not recommended.
Rapidshare is a German company based in Cham, Switzerland. It is specialized on the simple online exchange of large files and data. The maximum file size is limited to 300MB. According to the company, more than 160 millions files are stored on the servers. The estimated total server capacity is higher than 4.5 million gigabytes. Therefore, it is not a surprise that the website belongs to the Top 20 of the most visited websites. The website is financed by premium logins, which allows the user a higher number of downloads and a higher speed. The latest feature is a professional filehosting service for business partners. It provides some special features including fast downloads without the premium account, IP-controlled access and restricted access by so-called deep links.
The Rapidshare servers contain tens of thousands gigabyte files of data that are just waiting to be downloaded. Although there is a small amount of copyright protected content, most of the files contain absolutely content. The advantage of Rapidshare is the high speed and the broad accessibility. Usually, the download rate is much higher than the one from the original suppliers’ sites.
Searching for the uploaded files is complicated since the provider does not offer any search engine. The download links are usually posted in various forums and are often accessible only by prior notification. To close the gap of the missing search engine, new programmes and websites were programmed and submitted. At the moment this is done in three different ways:
1. The Rapidshare search engine uses another search engine such as Google, Yahoo or Bing to search for Rapidshare links. This simply complies with typing the search term “http://Rapidshare .com/” in one of the above mentioned search engines and analyze the results afterwards.
2. On the Internet, there are many sites that upload files to the Rapidshare servers and post the corresponding links on special sites. The Search engine operators have developed their own bots that browse these page links and organize them in different categories.
3. As already mentioned before, there are many links to forums. To get access to these links, you usually must sign up in the appropriate forum. The new programmed search engines have their own bots that log in the forums and search all posts for Rapidshare links.
Recently, there are more than 50 different search engines for Rapidshare online. Most of them differ in the provided categories, the speed and the actuality. Since the number of files stored on the servers is huge, only highly specialized search engines give perfect results. Therefore, some of them offer new features like search by date, letter or size. However, if you cannot find the file in one of them, you should try an engine that uses another search strategy. However, some of the Rapidshare search engines try to install malicious software on the visiting PC. Therefore, you should visit only tested and approved websites.
In any case, you need to ensure that the content you want to download is legal. Downloading of material that violates copyrights can be illegal in your country.