rapidshire - is legal?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

They offer two kinds of services - a free one that seldom works and a 
paid one which I never try.

Through their web site one can download a huge number of, for instance, 
books (in PDF format). They have also a lot of software (e.g. right now 
I saw MatLab). Most of the books are certainly allowed to be 
distributed. In some cases this is not so obvious, though. They I am 
sure have also videos (probably porno, too) but I did not care to check 
for that kind of stuff.

Well... for myself only, I would not mind so much to download software 
just to try, even when it might be not entirely obvious if this is fully 
legal. However, I can not use a possibly illegal software in my work.

Therefore, I wonder if anyone here is able to advise on legality of 
their service. For a rather small payment one could get tons of 
gigabytes of data from them. Their payments network is very broad, so I 
just wonder how all this works?


zb.
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