I had been a long-time premium user of Rapidshare through it's peak in 2007 to 2009 or so. Their service was wonderful (or so it seemed) until almost nobody used it anymore. The business model that Rapidshare held on to is clearly failing them as more and more users are switching to other sites that are either free or not that expensive (Mega, Mediafire, etc.)
Mediafire seems to be hitting the tubes, though. They used to be one of the best no-nonsense upload service (reliable, instant download, very rare CAPTCHAs, multiple concurrent downloads, no timeouts), but they've gotten much more aggressive about deleting files and putting in quite intrusive advertising-based CAPTCHAs - which broke bulk downloading tools like jDownloader, as I learned when I went to download a few hundred albums uploaded from Comiket 83 (I wanted to listen to them but also use them for a side-project on Touhou music statistics I've been working on).
