I just got an email from rapidshare a couple of days ago, telling me I had recieved a free premium account. 'Oh good' I thought. I heard that they give free premium accounts to users whose uploads are downloaded a lot. I thought, that must be what this is. Uh uh. Once I logged onto to rapidshare, I discovered that I could no longer download as a free user, and neither could I download with my premium account unless I put some money into it. What a crock.
To fix things, I had to go searching for their cookie and delete it so that I could again be an anonymous user and download for free.