corellian77 said:

Ziz... I considered paying the Rapidshare fee, but I just hate paying for download services when there are perfectly free ones floating around out there (not to mention my distaste for paying for a slightly altered version of a movie I already own).

Do you know if a paid member can download more than one file at at time from Rapidshare? If I could simply click away and download 80 files simultaneously, I might pay the fee.

yes - sort of. I don't know that you'd want to try and DL all 80 rars at once. With my DSL connection, I typically like to DL about 5 files at a time since each is 100 MB. Yes, I have to dl the next set every 30 min. When I've tried to do like 20-30 at a time they end up 'timing out'.

[EDIT: though if you have a decent download manager program, you can queue the files so they DL in order so you don't have to babysit. I did a trial of one that worked great, but the trial ran out and I didn't want to front the cash to buy it, can't remember what it was now]

I've also DL other edits from fanedit (of movies I own - just to be clear). so the access fee has been well worth it. just my 2 cents.

everyone has their favorite DL method, but rapidshare has worked best for me

(I'm up to part 55 of 80. almost there... almost there...)