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RapidShare: History & Companies

RapidShare was an online file hosting service that opened in 2002. In 2009, it was among the Internet's 20 most visited websites and claimed to have 10 petabytes of files uploaded by users with the ability to handle up to three million users simultaneously. Following the takedown of similar service Megaupload in 2012, RapidShare changed its business…

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RapidShare topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around RapidShare.

Related topics
31
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
36
Extracted relationships
58
Concept neighborhoods
8
Bridge connections
36

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Legal issues · 14 topics
History · 5 topics
Software · 5 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Operation and services · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
27 May 2002; 24 years ago (2002-05-27)
Headquarters
Schochenmühlestrasse 6, 6340 Baar, Switzerland (canton of Zug)
Advertising
Subscription
Available in
English, French, German and Spanish
Current status
Offline
Dissolved
31 March 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-31)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Operation and services

Software

Legal issues

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How RapidShare connects Entity context

The extracted context around RapidShare shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, RapidShare → April, August, Baar, CEO, Christian Schmid, COO Bobby Chang, Files, Germany, In, It, Later, March, Mulheim, On, Rapid Share, RapidForum, RapidShare AG, RapidShare's, Schmid, Switzerland Another extracted example is RapidShare → By, GEMA, German, January, MD5-hash, On, That, The, United States, While. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

RapidShare

Top relations

related to history · 20
RapidShare → April, August, Baar, CEO, Christian Schmid, COO Bobby Chang, Files, Germany, In, It, Later, March, Mulheim, On, Rapid Share, RapidForum, RapidShare AG, RapidShare's, Schmid, Switzerland
related to Legal issues · 10
RapidShare → By, GEMA, German, January, MD5-hash, On, That, The, United States, While
related to RapidShare Manager · 9
RapidShare → An, Linux, Mac, RapidShare Manager, The, This, Uploader, Windows Vista, Windows XP
related to Operation and services · 7
RapidShare → Gbit/s, In April, In March, No, RapidShare's, Upon, URL
Advertising · 1
RapidShare → Subscription
Available in · 1
RapidShare → English, French, German and Spanish
Current status · 1
RapidShare → Offline
Dissolved · 1
RapidShare → 31 March 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-31)
Founded · 1
RapidShare → 27 May 2002; 24 years ago (2002-05-27)
Headquarters · 1
RapidShare → Schochenmühlestrasse 6, 6340 Baar, Switzerland (canton of Zug)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

files file court users site services 2010 march copyright service illegal uploaded german download copyrighted would material use also available

RapidShare relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 58 structured relationships around RapidShare. Examples in this analysis include RapidShare → Advertising → Subscription and RapidShare → Available in → English, French, German and Spanish. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
RapidShareAdvertisingSubscription1.00infobox
RapidShareAvailable inEnglish, French, German and Spanish1.00infobox
RapidShareCurrent statusOffline1.00infobox
RapidShareDissolved31 March 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-31)1.00infobox
RapidShareFounded27 May 2002; 24 years ago (2002-05-27)1.00infobox
RapidShareHeadquartersSchochenmühlestrasse 6, 6340 Baar, Switzerland (canton of Zug)1.00infobox
RapidShareRegistrationOptional1.00infobox
RapidShareType of businessAktiengesellschaft1.00infobox
RapidShareType of siteOnline backup service1.00infobox
unlimited download speedinstance ofto have 600 Gbit/s of bandwidth.Registration and payment allowed benefits0.80text
immediate downloadinstance ofto have 600 Gbit/s of bandwidth.Registration and payment allowed benefits0.80text
an enforced wait of several minutes between downloadsinstance ofRapidShare discontinued the program to avoid the impression it rewarded its users for uploading copyrighted material.Downloads by people without a current premium account subscr…0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around RapidShare bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Users, Files and Services. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • RapidShare
    • Users
    • Files
    • Services
    • Court
    • De
    • German
    • Site
    • Service
    • Use
    • Copyright
    • Uploaded
    • Illegal
  • rapidshare
    • Users
    • Files
    • Services
    • Court
    • De
    • German
    • Site
    • Service
    • Use
    • Copyright
    • Uploaded
    • Illegal
  • file hosting service
    • Online
    • Service
    • Business
    • Also
    • Use
    • Services
    • Court
    • Hosting
    • Users
    • Could
    • Later
    • Prevent
  • copyright
    • Could
    • Injunction
    • Material
    • Illegal
    • File
    • Court
    • Three
    • Downloads
    • Service
    • Several
    • Years
    • Rapidshare
  • business model
    • Service
    • File
    • Services
    • Hosting
    • Storage
    • Later
    • Online
    • Also
    • Available
    • Use
    • Copyrighted
    • German
  • cloud storage services
    • Storage
    • Three
    • Use
    • Users
    • German
    • March
    • Company
    • Court
    • Later
    • Also
    • Available
    • Would
  • operation and services
    • Storage
    • Use
    • German
    • March
    • Users
    • Court
    • Three
    • Later
    • Also
    • Available
    • Company
    • Would
  • download
    • Files
    • Downloads
    • Injunction
    • Several
    • Use
    • Would
    • Rapidshare
    • Users
    • File

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For RapidShare, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects RapidShare with Legal issues. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
RapidShare — Legal issues · splits 22 ⟂ 15
RapidShare — History · splits 31 ⟂ 6
RapidShare — Software · splits 31 ⟂ 6
RapidShare — Overview · splits 32 ⟂ 5
RapidShare — Operation and services · splits 33 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

RapidShare

Nodes37
Edges36
Triples58
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.054054
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around RapidShare to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — RapidShare · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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