Rapidshare Aims To Convert Pirates Into Customers

[GeeZus]

The file-hosting service Rapidshare is seeking major entertainment industry partners for an online store where links to infringing material will redirect to. The plan is an attempt to bridge the gap between copyright holders and users of the site who distribute infringing material.

Similar to many other companies that operate in the file-sharing business,


Rapidshare often finds itself caught between two fires. On the one hand it wants to optimize the user experience, but by doing so they have to respect the rights holders to avoid being continuously dragged to court.
To ease the minds of some major executives in the entertainment industry, Rapidshare?s General Manager Bobby Chang has revealed an ambitious plan through which copyright holder could benefit from the file-hosting service. At the same time, Chang says that his company will target uploaders of copyrighted material ? who he refers to as criminals ? more aggressively.


Earlier this week we already hinted at Rapidshare?s intention to terminate accounts of copyright infringers. In that article we made the mistake of quoting a fake email that has been circulating for a while, which suggested that Rapidshare had been logging IP-addresses for legal purposes. In reality, the company has only been terminating the accounts of infringing uploaders.


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Source: torrentfreak.

GeeZus Reviewed by GeeZus on 26th Mar 2010. Rapidshare Aims To Convert Pirates Into Customers The file-hosting service Rapidshare is seeking major entertainment industry partners for an online store where links to infringing material will redirect to. The plan is an attempt to bridge the gap between copyright holders and users of the site who distribute infringing material. http://www.besthostingforums.com/images/cdn/besthostingforums.com/2010/03/rapidsharelogo-1.jpgSimilar to many other companies that Rating: 5

[4tw]

Interesting. TorrentFreak .

[DJ Norix]

I hope Katz stops asking for RS mirrors.

This shit is just like TPB. Turning the best sites into legal crap. Time for the others to rise.

[Daniel]

Thanks for sharing this

[DeLeTeD]

There is still mu, and ms which are great alternatives imo. Im sure rs will stay strong for a while.

[xtremeuploader]

we must be careful

[raflamo]

new competitor=hf
may be that is why hf is forced to follow rs in closure of some accounts

[McGrhill]

Thanks for the info

[Royal King]

The fake email about ip logging was kinda scary o.O

I really have to bookmark torrent freak on my browser now

[EsotorisK]

Nice info. That clears out that RS is going to die soon.