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by HalibetLector 5255 days ago
rapidshare is a swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here.

Tell that to the pirate bay.

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Europe is a country and everyone speaks french there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI

:)

you may need to figure out the difference between Swedish and Swiss
thepiratebay is Swedish, not Swiss.
well, to be precisely true, Sharereactor was run by a Swiss guy, and it was indeed torn down by the police. But the guy did not get in jail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor

but Sharereactor was designed for exchanging movies illegally, whereas rapidshare tries to be different :)

None of them are sitting in jail right now.