But, there's no denying the fact that it was popular because it was free. What I mean is, the server costs over the years would have been enormous, especially with no paid options to bear the costs. Given that their main users were pirates, it's quite surprising that Zippyshare lasted this long. It seems strange that the owners aren't asking for donations either, considering its popularity. It simply states that Zippyshare is shutting down. The article does not talk about any future plans, such as offering a paid subscription.

It has become unaffordable for the owners to maintain the site. The announcement blames the cost of large servers and rising electricity prices, which has gone up 2.5 times in their region, as the reason for shutting down the service. It's actually one of the top 1000 sites today in terms of visitors, and the service had received over 14.5 million requests over the years, for taking down URLs that contained copyrighted material. We are not talking about small numbers here, TorrentFreak reports that Zippyshare still gets around 45 million visits every month.

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