Today, searching for those files is a ghostly experience. The link farms are gone, replaced by legitimate tech support forums or modern subscription pages. The era of the "Rapidshare hunt"—the thrill of finding a working link, the fear of the virus scan, the relief of a successful install—is a relic of a wilder, less regulated internet.
. All data hosted on their servers was deleted at that time and cannot be retrieved. Status of Office 2013 and RapidShare RapidShare is Defunct Rapidshare.com files office 2013
Downloading copyrighted materials, such as Office 2013, from file-sharing platforms like Rapidshare was (and still is) a serious offense. Copyright holders, including Microsoft, took a dim view of piracy and worked tirelessly to shut down websites and prosecute individuals who engaged in copyright infringement. Today, searching for those files is a ghostly experience
