Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?

[zulman89]

Last week we reported on rumors that Rapidshare had, or was about to be, shut down, rumors that now look likely to resurface. The company, one of the world’s largest ‘one-click’ file hosting services, has lost a copyright infringement case against German performing rights outfit, GEMA. Representing a claimed 60,000 members and more than 1 million rights owners worldwide, GEMA has taken an aggressive stance in pursuing legal action against Rapidshare, trying to force it to be accountable for the infringing actions of its users.

For its part, Rapidshare has always insisted that it cannot be held responsible for these actions, such as when users upload copyright works (in this case, music) to their servers for subsequent downloading by others.

On 23 January 2008, the district court in Düsseldorf (Landgericht) disagreed with this assertion after GEMA succeeded in convincing the court that Rapidshare should take responsibility for infringements carried out within its service.

GEMA are trying to imply that as a result of the decision, Rapidshare will be forced to take preventative action to stop GEMA works from even getting onto their servers, rather than a DMCA-style after-the-fact removal. GEMA says that if Rapidshare are forced to filter they will likely end up with a service that’s not worth operating, so they may decide to shut it down completely.

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[uxrr6]

rapidshare ,please dont go

[kekinash]

The problem are their users with files named like:

Hey_Microsoft_Office_2007_Crack_Inside_This_File!.rar

or

I_so_pride_to_be_an_idiot_Keygen_Inside.zip


Well... you get the point...

[zulman89]

rapidshare ,please dont go

nah i wish for them Quick death

at least i am generous i dont went them to have painful death

[ecko]

I hope it goes down and people move on to better alternatives like mediafire.

[Westsideline]

I hope it goes down and people move on to better alternatives like mediafire.

its kool mate, BUT, 100MB LIMIT of upload????

Better get Verzend

@deafsnake me mate,, whos gonna upload loads of files to them, and peeps with free access, have to wait for a limit.

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WHATS so kool about RS anyways?

[skydiver1921]

you can always reset your internet, or buy an account.

well it doesn't matter to me hang in there RS for another year.

[Xray]

It's not RS.com but RS.de !!

[Westsideline]

It's not RS.com but RS.de !!

same company, different domain names

[skydiver1921]

.de is old RS, new RS is .com or sister site.