Rapidshare, the world’s most popular file sharing site, may look completely legal and clean at first glance. However if you have been around the downloading scene for quite a long time, you may have found out the secret service that it offers.

Pirated software, also known as warez, are abundant on Rapidshare’s servers. The site may have stated clearly that it does not allow warez uploading, but no serious actions are taken against the warez uploaders for some reasons. The worst punishment that the uploaders receive is the illegal files being deleted, which shows how soft Rapidshare is being against these law breakers.

Rapidshare is really one of the best ways to share software illegally, as it provides high uploading and downloading speed, favourable to both the uploaders and the downloaders. Moreover Rapidshare also rewards uploaders who can bring a lot of visitors to the site, encouraging people to upload warez – everyone wants free stuffs. The result; Rapidshare has established itself as one of the most reliable sources of warez on the internet.

Why cannot Rapidshare stop these illegal activities? They are actually more than able to do that but they know that warez, despite being illegal, are profitable to them. As warez files are known to be huge in size, many downloaders purchase the premium accounts because they are unwilling to download the ‘treasures’ over a few days or longer. The absence of downloadable warez on the site will result in a noticeable decrease in account sales.