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RapidShare.com the most famous file hosting site which propably hosts the richest illegal content on the internet, recently introduced a set of new rules for site usage, and some new features, here's a summery of the recent changes:

• The maximum file size increased from 100MB to 200MB.
• Download limit per 5 days increased from 25GB to 50GB then changed to 10GB per day and now the 10GB per day is carried to the second day when not used but it saving is limited to 50GB again.
• Removed Captcha for free users
• Limited the use of Premium users to one IP at a time making things harder for Premium account sharing
• Reduced the RapidPoints gaining from free users to 3 point per user in the last hours and for files over 3MB(it was 5 points per user for over 1MB files).
• Introduced a new RapidPoints from Premium downloads which is capped to 255 point per day.

It looks like these changes is trying to fight account sharing (IP limit and download limit) and give more for legit Premium users but will this changes affect this site popularity and fan base? will see in the next few months.