By eliminating the captchas we simplified the use of RapidShare’s free services significantly. In addition, free-users can now upload and download bigger files (up to 200 megabyte). Anyhow, to protect RapidShare from congestion caused by automated downloading, we limited the maximum download speed for free‐users to 500 kilobit per second. To compensate for that, they do not have to wait anymore until starting a succeeding download.

В общем, бесплатным юзерам Рапидшара теперь отдаёт файлы без тайм–аутов и каптч, но с низкой скоростью и не более одного одновременно.