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...

Sendspace hasn't been too bad whenever I've downloaded something from there.