Since the official shutdown, several clone or "mirror" sites using the Zippyshare name have appeared. The original team has warned that these sites are and should be treated as potential scams or sources of malware . Why Zippyshare Shut Down The operators cited several reasons for the closure:
: Rising electricity costs (a 2.5x increase) made the servers too expensive to maintain. Download from Zippyshare [497 MB]
: Offers 15 GB of free storage and is widely used for reliable, long-term file sharing. uptooda/changelog.txt at master - GitHub Since the official shutdown, several clone or "mirror"