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Court rules against Rapidshare in Germany

article published on 25 June, 2009

A Berlin court has today ruled against the file-hosting giant Rapidshare, siding with the German copyright society GEMA. As part of the ruling, Rapidshare must now "proactively filter" over 5000 tracks from GEMA's catalog and make sure they are not distributed on their servers. "This means that the copyright holder is no longer required to perform the ongoing and complex checks," GEMA ... [ read the full article ]

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Serialluv
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 07:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Next the German's will be telling Rapidshare to check all the files hosted!!! People use this as a legitimate way of distribution as well as those that hold illegal files there?!!?? How are RS supposed to check winrar encrypted files?? This is ridiculous and could see RS losing customers!! I host legitimate business info up there - encrypted of course, I need to know they aren't sniffing through my stuff!! That would be like safety deposit boxes being randomly checked fordrugs money by the banks!!!!
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pphoenix
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 11:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
next ppl sue VolksWagen for use in hit & run's, drink driving & smash n grabs!

or maybe sue VolksWagen for all the monies that it built it's company on from slave labour with the Jews.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/129150.stm

to this day not a penny has been paid and the german courts will do nothing to aid the claimants.
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Amak
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 16:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is Rapidshare even in Germany?
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Serialluv
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 16:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Amak:
 Is Rapidshare even in Germany?
yes
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shummyr
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_ 		25. June 2009 @ 17:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Originally posted by Amak:
 Is Rapidshare even in Germany?
Originally posted Serialluv
yes
I Thought Rapidshare Was Hosted in Sweden
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eiamhere
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_ 		26. June 2009 @ 04:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Rapidshare.com and rapidshare.de - are they are they both hosted on German servers, does that even matter? What I mean is, are both affected by this?
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jos22
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_ 		26. June 2009 @ 08:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Amak:
 Is Rapidshare even in Germany?
YES and NO rapid-share is not but some of the servers they own are located in Germany so they either follow German law or move the servers else where
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pmshah
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_ 		26. June 2009 @ 11:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just FYI they also have servers in India, hosted by VSNL, the largest subsea cable owner in the world.

BTW Rapidshare.com is Switzerland based.
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blueboy09
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_ 		26. June 2009 @ 20:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I like RapidShare, mainly bc it allowed a file of Pandora on my WinMo phone, that the Pandora website claims it's not supported on my phone. I called BS on that one. When there's a will, there's a way, and RapidShare helped me get what i wanted. Just one other tool to "help out" people to access software that otherwise wouldn't even be possible if it weren't for these guys. Keep up the good work!! As for the prominent people in Germany, they need to get over it, cause they can't stop what he been done. - BLUEBOY
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