RapidShare CAPTCHA will drive you crazy

April 24, 2008 by Kiltak |

If you ever need to download a file from RapidShare be warned: You may have to spend several hours trying to decrypt their CAPTCHA pictures in order to download a file.

Each displayed letter contains the picture of a cat or dog. To proceed with a download, you’ll have to type in only the letters that include a cat. Good luck!

Thanks Amit!

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33 Comments »

Comment by siyb
2008-04-24 11:07:50
well it’s still more readable than some other captchas out there :P
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Comment by Bruno
2008-06-07 13:21:54
No, it is not, this rapidshare captcha with cat is the lowest move i’ve ever seen a hoster do. No free user will like this feature, in all probability they’ll hate it and hate rapidshare for it.

Adrive.com is free of that crap, no premium accounsts required

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Comment by Nick Ashley
2008-04-24 11:19:35
I sure can’t read the damn thing. I had to download something a couple of days ago and I had to get a different picture three times, and then it took such a long time.
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Comment by Kamikaze_al Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-27 01:03:56
Try using a small program called cryptload. You can forget the cats and the dogs and the waiting time. It works for me on my Vista ultimate and is good.
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Comment by Mike
2008-04-24 13:24:01
Yeah, it’s pretty brutal. Definitely took me a while to guess which ones were cats and which weren’t. Welcome to the next escalation in the anti-robot wars.
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Comment by jack
2008-04-24 15:04:17
damn. this sucks.
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Comment by James
2008-04-24 17:23:58
Someone should create a computer program that can read the captchas for us.
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Comment by Chris Hallgren
2008-04-24 22:33:19
They have and thats why there are more difficult CAPTCHA’s because of the stupid programs that read them.
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Comment by Kamikaze_al Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-27 01:05:45
CryptLoad is the name of the program.
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2008-04-25 00:45:42
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Comment by Jesmond Darmanin
2008-04-25 02:16:19
it’s almost impossible to decypher!
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Comment by Jaxter
2008-04-25 04:02:09
thats really insane! why they don’t make all this sick stuff?
it will be no free users anymore RAPIDSHARE will be only premium u will see very soon

rapidshare HAter

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Comment by BelchSpeak
2008-04-25 06:50:27
Dude, this looks gawdawful.
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Comment by WorldCitizeN
2008-04-25 17:17:28
It would be easier if we tried to guess the four digit number they had on their minds…
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Comment by Syahid A.
2008-04-27 06:49:12
Best cats: lolcats, Worst cats: Captcha-cats!
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Comment by archit
2008-04-27 22:27:29
how to read this new captchas
can anyone help me
raopidshare wanted to make captchas that are machine-unreadable
but now they have invented human-unreadable captchs
there is no logical reason for this shit
why dont they disallow all free users to download
it will lessen the anxiety atleast

all said but plz tell me
how to read this new captchas
can anyone help me
i need to download some softwatres

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Comment by Rahul Subscribed to comments via email
2008-04-30 09:10:13
Its very easy.. some of the letters contains a dog
we should only type the letters contains a cat
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Comment by shanX
2008-04-30 21:46:00
Rapidshare is acting like a bullly. It’s time for some Rapidshare competitor to roll out…
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Comment by Jose
2008-05-01 11:10:06
When you are in a hurry and you have to figure out this capcha just to have to wait another minute because you entered it wrong, it sucks BIG TIME.
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Comment by el barto
2008-05-02 08:14:40
damn assholes, i become a rapidshare hater
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Comment by Exxon
2008-05-02 08:18:31
This is really crappy. I tried 3 times already and still no go. with each mistake theres a 2.5 minute wait period. Really crappy. I didnt realize there where dogs in the captcha.

Really counter productive measure….I hate it

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Comment by kingbinary
2008-05-05 13:51:07
This shit is re-fucking-diculous
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Comment by adriaan
2008-05-10 06:28:37
this is so stupid.It is not like it will prevent less users from dl/ing
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Comment by ignacio anduaga Subscribed to comments via email
2008-05-11 14:42:45
Come on ! es realy easy… just look for the cat’s tail! es easy to recognize.
it’s curly shape, make really easy to identify
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Comment by Rapidshare hater
2008-05-17 05:26:01
It’s not easy. It’s really hard to pick the cat sometimes. If it were really easy no one would complain.
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Comment by Jhon
2008-05-14 08:37:03
RapidShare sucks”
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Comment by Reza
2008-05-21 12:00:10
at around 0600 GMT, they have a Rapidshare Happy Hour. Capthca images aren’t around then. Atleast they weren’t today. And it really was called Rapidshare Happy Hour.
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Comment by Reza
2008-05-21 18:34:27
Interesting to note. It is the next day, and the Happy Hour changed to 0100 GMT. I guess it’s random.
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Comment by Anon
2008-05-27 14:09:22
This is stupid. If somebody has a reading dificulty then they will find it impossible to download.
And if you get it wrong you have to wait.
Im sure a dissabitily organisaition could get RS done for this.
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Comment by Me
2008-06-09 12:25:56
I hate the new captcha, but it’s the fault of the ‘hackers’ that try to trick rapidshare.
First there was noch captcha and no waiting time, then waiting time. Then a simple captcha and waiting time and now a fucking annoying captcha plus waiting time.
Great, thanks Hacker assholes.
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