RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine

[The Coon]

RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine

Earlier this year, cyberlocker service RapidShare was ordered by a court to remove nearly 150 electronic books from its archives and prevent users from re-uploading them by implementing a filter. According to the publishers who brought the case, RapidShare quickly breached the injunction. Today, the Regional Court of Hamburg agreed and hit the file-hosting company with a 150,000 euro fine.

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The Coon Reviewed by The Coon on 2nd Dec 2010. RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine Earlier this year, cyberlocker service RapidShare was ordered by a court to remove nearly 150 electronic books from its archives and prevent users from re-uploading them by implementing a filter. According to the publishers who brought the case, RapidShare quickly breached the injunction. Today, the Regional Court of Hamburg agreed and hit the file-hosting company with a 150,000 euro fine. Full Story Rating: 5

[Mr.BorisManUtd]

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah.

[aapkae]

wow this is something ironic,so now file hosts are in trouble

[kamrandahir]

GoooooD news
time to celebrate

[play_avi]

Yeah Great News yuhhhhuuuu

[rohanviolin]

Awesome News.....PARTEH!

DIE RAPIDSHARE!

[Jayzzy]

omg lolx
people are so happy just coz they stopped giving rewards..how greedy

[Daniel]

Files will be shared anyways.

[kos]

hurray party yaar ,

[Mr Happy]

The Court stated that RapidShare “…culpably failed to take reasonable examination and control measures. These measures include the utilization of a word filter, which checks the file name during the uploading of files to the servers of [Rapidshare] with regard to whether the author, the title, the ISBN number of the publisher may be contained in this name.”

This show's now that you do have to use fancy or encrypted names when uploading files to avoid being detected by filters. eg if you upload name-of-book.rar it will probably be deleted faster than a3g3nwi478h3wafiuhma.rar

RapidShare was also ordered by the Court to install a word filter for new user uploads and is also “required to search the relevant popular external link libraries for links to files with the works in dispute.”

So that means Rapidshare has to search warez sites too? Dam that's a near impossible job and also shows they are going to screw themselves even more.

This court case could really be the beginning of the end for file hosts and not just Rapidshare. I don't know why ye are cellebrating. This can be used as an example when bringing other file hosts to court as a precidence.