Right.. so chances are, you probably followed the link on the home page or on the forum and came here.

Yup, correct. And this is the post you should read. Instead of working silently on all of this, I might as well share everything with my members.

Over the past few days I’ve been talking to a few ‘legal authorities’ that have had problems against RP. I am not going to mention any names here, rather let you know what’s going on.

Apparently, they do not like the system, entirely. I’ve received a few legal threats and while I’ve ignored the threats I’ve responded to the legal queries. They want me to either shut down RP, or at least cease the ‘download’ service and turn RP into something else.

The dedicated server RP is on, is mine, so no one’s pushing me out for the time being. But if things go at the pace they are, stuff could get a lot more complicated.

Their argument is that my ’service’ encourages piracy. I don’t doubt that, and I don’t really care. But RP is a popular website. And when a website is popular, you’re bound to get attention from people you’d rather avoid.

So… for the time being.. here’s my decision:

“Effective this post, RP will be shutting down the downloader area permanently. I know this will come as a shock to a lot of people. To all the dedicated members, to DMan, and other potential members. But, this situation, unfortunately, is not entirely in my hands. Rather than being forced to completely shut down, I figure it’d be better to take the steps myself.
With all the new features and RPv3 we planned, I know we all had great plans. But for the time being, those plans are on hold.
Who knows, a replica of RP may come around and continue the legacy that RP itself is leaving behind”

I cannot state anything at this point, nor make any conclusions. But I’ll tell you this
- This is not where I’ll stop! I’ll let things die down a bit, and then (to avoid potential problems, I will most likely bring everything back up under a different domain, a different server, and complete with the v3 you always wanted to see)

Meanwhile, I’ll need suggestions from everyone here. With the actual downloader gone, and the traffic I’m getting, I need to turn RP into something different. I need suggestions from you guys, my dedicated members

I’ve been thinking of the following possibilities:
- Warez Forum (again, there’s legal matters involved, so fat chances)
- Some other service or general forum
- Your ideas?

Like I said, I am really sorry to have to do all this. It’s come as a shock to me too. But, I can’t really help it

Cheers,
Hamza

Yup.. no more monkeys or apples.

Server transfer was a success (a huge success, tbh) and we’re back in business. The forums are up, and the same goes for the main website, etc.

Currently working on getting the public downloader up too. Hope to get it done by tonight, provided everything goes fine.

So, feel free to test out the new server, the speeds, etc. I am not really sure what speeds you should expect, but they’ll either be better than, or at least equal to the previous server.

Browsing on RP should also be better, because we’re hosted on 8GB RAM now (as opposed to 2GB)

The blog will also be seeing lots of new posts from different categories, etc. So there will be something for everyone.
The contest is still on schedule, ready to roll as planned.

More power to RP. And believe me when I say this, the new servers are just the start of RP v3!