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Essentially this is correct. Downloading from rapidshare is pretty much the same as downloading off of someone's own website. With rapidshare, you're not downloading from one specific user's library of files, you're downloading from a server. With P2P services, the files need to come from someone, that someone will have an IP attached to them, which can be traced to an ISP, and then they get fistfucked.
Rapi8dshare doesn't have that. What they can do is find the files that are being illegally shared, and perhaps get the download info from rapidshare themselves, but you have to think that there are thousands, if not millions of people downloading this stuff, it'd be damn near impossible, plus it's not entirely rapidshare's fault. they started a service for convenience purposes and the warez community has exploited it. Not their fault, they offer a specific service for whoever wants to use it, it's not intended for illegal purposes, but the way it's set up they almost can't stop it from being used for such things.
Even if they ask RS to start cracking down, it will never end. There's thousands of different links for the same albums or movies or TV Shows on Rapidshare. Getting a couple isn't going to stop it.
Downloading from RS, unless they figure out a way to royally fuck those who get their stuff from there, is almost impossible to track back to specific individuals.