Bypass RapidShare Waiting Time

[ZephyrBlack]

Tutorial is not by me, I have not tested it but if you want to try go ahead and tell me if it work or not.

Can you bypass rapidshare waiting time?

This was sent to me by my friend... Smile

Before presenting the solution I would like to state that I feel very strongly against piracy. Sites like rapidshare, megaupload are the perfect scheme to make profit from illegal downloads without having to take the fall. (You can learn more about how this website works reading it’s wikipage)

If they could (they probably can) they would (ok, they probably will) sue me for saying this, but everyone knows this is the truth. I know that have the right to only offer a free service to a user whenever they wish to. It’s the way they do it that intrigued me. Can I fool “one of the biggest and fastest web hosters world wide”. Well it appears I can.

They check information from your computer (specifically your network interface MAC Address) to know what is the computer trying to access a file. I didn’t gave myself the work of checking if they let any tracking cookies in the system, I just assumed they do (and worked around it).

Before just giving the solution I found, let me just express my opinion on privacy. In my opinion no one has the right to know what computer is mine, what data is in my hard drive or what things I like to do. You should protect yourself to prevent companies from knowing stuff like who you are, what websites you visit, what is your computer, what data you have stored in your computer, what is your email (so they can flood it the way they want), etc. It’s not like I’m a hacker or that I have the most important things of the planet of my laptop, that’s certainly not the case. But all these information are about myself and for myself only. No company should be making money selling this information so a third party can benefit from it, by flooding my email or having data (like my address or phone number) where they can annoy me. They shouldn’t even know about it in the first place. So protect your information from unwanted use, check out why you should encrypt your hard drive, try to be spyware free and most of all be aware that not all is good about the internet.

For starters, how do I avoid a website from knowing it’s me. Simple:

1. Clear your private data (how to)
2. Close Firefox
3. Download MAC Address Changer (here)
4. Install the program and run it
5. In the program select the network connection you use to access the internet from the list
6. Hit the Change MAC button
7. Hit Random MAC Address
8. Hit Change now
9. Disconnect your modem from power for 10/15 seconds (unplug the cord).
10. Plug the cord back in.
11. Open Firefox and go to the web page you wish to access.

Don’t forget, when your done go to MAC address changer and put your original MAC address on.

MAC is not Macintosh...

Media Access Control address (MAC address)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

There is a MAC changer link in the original blog post that is free. The shareup one says it costs $14.

[fxfighter]

Much easier just to use proxies, there are plenty available for free to use and it takes no more than 10 seconds to set one for use. You still would have to change proxy each time you reach the limit on that connection though but yeah it really is a waste of time to do what was outlined here =/

[Monster99]

decent tip thank you:)

[NITRO86sp]

omg noob all these can be prevented if u just restart modem to change ip

[eisenzahn]

I use this method often. It takes just about the same amount of time to power up and cycle your cable modem. I've never had any luck with web-based proxying; it seems whatever site I find, they want you to buy something.

ETA: Cable modem users can't just turn the modem on and off; we have a static IP that won't change while the MAC address for the modem remains the same. I used to have a DSL line, and yeah, all you had to do was disconnect, then reconnect and you'd have a new IP. The method described above changes the MAC address of the modem (temporarily), so that when you cycle the modem, your ISP believes you're connecting with a completely different piece of equipment, so it gives you a new IP.

There a lot of steps above, but really it's just using the MAC address spoofer (I use MacMakeup), using the program to "generate random" MAC address, "change" MAC address, wait a sec, then cycle the modem by unplugging it and replugging it. There you go.

[NITRO86sp]

and if u think that wont help erase and cache memory of your IE. period.

[sanjikun]

i just use an addon for firefox which once populated with a list of different proxies automaticly changes everytime you go to whatever website you type in. mucheasier :S