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Rapidshare Future In Danger - German Court Orders File-Hoster To Remove Copyrighted Content Proactively

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In an on-going legal battle with GEMA, Rapidshare received an huge blow when a German court ruled that Rapidshare.Com is not doing enough to stop uploading of copyrighted content on their servers,
 
The court said that the steps taken by Rapidshare using MD5 Hash based content filtering to block previously removed material is not enough and can easily be bypassed changing a few bytes by adding/removing/altering the file contents,
 
the court also said that the company has to “proactively check content before publishing it“, according to the court ruling Rapidshare should also log and check IP numbers of potential copyright infringers.
 
Without a viable business model after removing copyrighted content,
Rapidshare might face shutdown as there is no Safe Harbor provision in German copyright laws similar to the DMCA,
which protects them from liability as long as they remove the infringing content after being notified with a takedown notice.

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2 Responses to “Rapidshare Future In Danger - German Court Orders File-Hoster To Remove Copyrighted Content Proactively”

  1. favertama Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    sounds like going to http://rapidshare.de will be a good idea in the future

    but…. where did you get this info Blackcell? I couldn’t find it on RS

  2. BlackCell Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    rapidshare.com and rapidshare.de are both german. so if rapidshare shuts down. they go both ;)

    http://tweakers.net/nieuws/55954/rapidshare-moet-alle-uploads-op-copyrights-checken.html

    It’s Dutch. maybe you can translate it.

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