After Rapidshare's failed attempt to introduce its five-package rip-off deal to the public 1st of July, and the strong international reactions of its customer base,  Rapidshare has permanantly retracted its five-package program but has not instituted the point system that it withdrew!

It seems that all along RS had in mind a plan to kill its uploaders. No serious hoster makes such a strategic mistake just to take it back a couple of days after. After they bunched all  customers up in their platform one good ol morning they decide to blackmail the customer base into making a cartload of money.

But it seems that they're not a getting a penny from anyone. Most users are moving to different file hosters  like Megaupload and Hotfile. It should be a mass move though or else downloaders will just disperse to various hosters turning into a "babel" of file hosting posts to everyones disadvantage.

Reactions to this decision are worldwide and all downloaders are calling for the boycott of Rapidshare...