RapidShare ordered to remove copyrighted content

[Airway]

Here's an article I found on the web:

 

A court ruling this week, however, may have sounded the death knell for RapidShare's business model. Germany's Hamburg district court has ruled that RapidShare uses insufficient measures to protect against piracy. The court ruled that the service must not just remove material for which it receives copyright complaints, it must proactively check content before it is made available online, at least in the case of users with previous infringements.

Whereas American "safe harbour" legislation allows companies like YouTube to put their fingers in their ears and go "la la la", denying knowledge of copyrighted material, Germany holds its filesharing services to a higher standard. The court dismissed the safeguards RapidShare already has in place as ineffective – an automated filter and a limited number of full-time staff. It was also unmoved by RapidShare's arguments about the expense of better filtering. "A business model that doesn't use common methods of prevention cannot claim the protection of the law," stated the ruling.

 

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/03/rapidshare.court.ruling

 

 

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Edited October 25, 2008 by Airway

[Kuky]

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