Guess who is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore? The RapidShare file service says it has had it up to its storage capacity with the treatment it’s getting from Capitol Hill here in the United States, and has hired a lobbyist to tell Congress what’s what.

The firm will help RapidShare “counter negative attacks on the company from US copyright interests,” according to the registration form that it has filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. The Swiss outfit’s move comes following a big content backed Congressional caucus calling out RapidShare and five other companies as the world’s worst websites.

“As you can imagine, we’re not very happy about that,” RapidShare’s new spokesperson Daniel Ramier told the Deutsche Welle news service. The company joined The Pirate Bay and Canada’s IsoHunt in the alleged hall of shame, even though a German court has ruled that RapidShare was not to blame for infringement by its users and had no responsibility to block content.

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Watch out Big Content—RapidShare has hired a lobbying firm