RapidShare, one of the first file-sharing services, will cease to exist on 31 March. Then the administration service will remove all user data and files. After the closure of Megaupload Swiss service has experienced an influx of users, and then tried to rebrand and to position itself as a "cloud" storage services for business clients.

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RapidShare, one of the first file-sharing services, will cease to exist on 31 March. Then the administration service will remove all user data and files. After the closure of Megaupload Swiss service has experienced an influx of users, and then tried to rebrand and to position itself as a "cloud" storage services for business clients.

the Service ceased to provide services free of charge, minimum subscription price of the service was 50 euros, which is a lot in the highly competitive market. In addition, people find it difficult to pay for what they previously enjoyed for free. At some point, followed by large-scale layoffs of employees, downloads RapidShare, which in 2010 recorded the "hundreds of millions" of hits per month, plummeted to negligible figures.

According to some, in 2014 the company has only one employee, whose duties included answering phone calls and work with existing clients.