Hmm... advice: try using 4shared.com or other services and see if you can find the same file.
Often time, I'd only turn to Rapidshare because it's some silly DLL or a complete package of DLLs that I'm missing somewhere in the system...
Otherwise, I don't see why I have to download gigabytes of stuffs from rapidshare, or a torrent network... or usenet... or whatever.
Lest it's a Linux iso... then it's a different story. ;p In which case, I prefer private torrent networks more than the general public ones. At least in the private networks, those files always have seeds, and if you are lucky, you have more seeds than you can possibly connect to. For instance, I got Fedora Core for the PS3 (4.3GB ISO) in 4 hours from a private network.
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