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Old 18th October 2008
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If you don't like rapidshare, there're plenty of easier ways to share files. BitTorrent is a wonderful, robust, and open protocol that is not encumbered by those sorts of limitations. Let's assume you're trying to get home movies that your grandma uploaded to the internet since her email provider won't let her send files that big. It may be in her best interests to use a more flexible means of sending you such things. As an aside, Java apps should work on FreeBSD. Just installed the java/jdk16 port and run it.

Honestly, if you're going to make use of a given provider, you ought to follow its terms of use. It's not like you're paying them (and there are some paid file sharing web services that cost like $1 USD per month for up to 5 gigs of space... above and beyond that, personal web hosting accounts with a lot of monthly transfer and many many gigs of storage are very cheap nowadays with many providers, too.)
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