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Rapidshare Divulges Uploader Information

Posted by kdawson on from the thanks-for-sharing dept.

Gorgonzolanoid notes a post on TorrentFreak reporting that the German Rapidshare is divulging uploader information to rights holders. Record labels are apparently making creative use of "paragraph 101" of German copyright law, which gives them a streamlined process to ask a court to order disclosure of information such as an IP address. "In Germany, the file-hosting service Rapidshare has handed over the personal details of alleged copyright infringers to several major record labels. The information is used to pursue legal action against the Rapidshare users and at least one alleged uploader saw his house raided."

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  1. Truth in naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    RapidShare is now rapdidly sharing uploader information.

    1. Re:Truth in naming by derrida · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, but what about downloaders?

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    2. Re:Truth in naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      RapidShare is now rapdidly sharing uploader information.

      Flanders, is that you?

  2. Re:Non-German users? by ionix5891 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could never make out the captchas so this doesn't affect me.

    i dunno i found them "captchas" rather interesting :P

    and then we had the these cats and dogs

  3. Re:Why even use RapidShare anyways? by noidentity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, don't use RapidShare, because all the other file hosting services would never disclose your IP address.

  4. I know what's going to happen to Rapidshare next: by Hurricane78 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rapidfail! ^^

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  5. Shit! I;m next, I know it !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, what a day to not use my neighbor's wifi.

  6. To be fair.... by jdong · · Score: 4, Funny

    It wasn't all fun and games for the record labels EITHER...



    http://rapidshare.com/files/12345678/PIRATE_IP_ADDRESSES.part1.rar | 209715 KB
    You are not a Premium User and have to wait. Please notice that only Premium Users will get full download speed.
    Still 66 seconds...

    1. Re:To be fair.... by iVasto · · Score: 2, Funny

      The link is dead, can you please reupload? I also can't seem to find part2 anywhere. Link?

  7. Re:This is what you get... by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... when you're not a computer expert and didn't realize they were logging your IP.

    Hey, that sounds like the plot for a movie. A couple of dim witted but lovable friends decide to rob a RIAA to pay for a neighbourhood kid's cancer treatment, but it all goes wrong when the rapidshare server logs their IPs, and then there's a madcap chase across the internets with viruses and trojans and a crazy Bavarian hacker named Grubi with a fetish for spaghetti.

  8. Re:Some basic rules to follow. by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you can spell nullification your too smart to be on a jury. Juries are made up of people to stupid to think of a reason to get out of jury duty.

    Since you're on a crusade to determine who is too stupid to serve on a jury, please allow me to correct your own glaring errors.

    "If you can spell nullification you're too smart to be on a jury. Juries are made up of people too stupid to think of a reason to get out of jury duty."

    Given the fact that you're obviously too stupid to compose a grammatically correct reply to the GP, I suppose you'll be scheduled for jury duty shortly. Have a nice day.

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