Whats the deal with rapidshare?

People still use rapidshare, which is fine. However I always see people complaining about rapidshare too. Then I see these programs that are supposed to get you past the rapidshare wait garbage and they don't work. You would think with all the complaining people a program that works would have come out by now. Just thought that was strange.

I'm not advocating getting past rapidshares security measures...

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There are a number of programs intended to automate RS downloads and minimize waiting times through scheduling, but they never work for long. RS simply increases\modifies the security level of their download access codes to thwart programs from reading them.

As to why people continue to use RS:
very reliable speeds as compared to other free storage sites.