Rapidshare – one of the most popular file hosting services changed its Captcha ( required only for free downloading ). The new one looks like this :

They did that do discourage automated downloads – softwares such as Universal Share Downloader used to be able to bypass the Captcha restrictions ( in combination with ABBYY FineReader ) . Now Rapidshare introduced animals as additional protection – cats – and dogs . All my attempts were unsuccessful until after a search in Internet I saw in the comments in one blog that there were dogs in the Captcha ( at first I saw only kittens ).

Its clear that Rapidshare wants to make more money – and this new approach is guaranteed to get them quite a few new premium memberships – but I dislike this practice . Rest assure it won`t be long until the new Captcha gets bypassed as well.

“It is not hard for bots to identify similar images . Since bot makers know Rapidshare offers 6 (or maybe 7 at times?) characters, they can easily take the image from the “please enter…” message, and search from the 6 characters with it in similar rotation / distortion…”

Andy Huang ( vBulletin)

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