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Maybe it would help if you simply actually read their main page (http://rapidshare.de/), which states:
"RapidShare is an absolutely free web-hosting service for providing webspace on our servers without the need to sign-up. The whole web-service is ad-financed. More infos can be found in our FAQ. Due to legal reasons we log uploader's IP-addresses."
One of their concerns is that, under German law, they might get into trouble for hosting the illegal spreading of copyrighted materials and they may, in fact, be required to keep track of IPs of uploaders in case there is claim of illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. The information does not explicitly state that they log "downloader's" IPs, but it would be easy to do so.
Regards,
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JMI
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