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Rapidshare Ordered To Filter Content

Posted by Soulskill on from the hope-you-like-busywork dept.

A Cow writes "TorrentFreak reports that the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet." Reader biabia brings an update to a related case in Italy involving four Google executives. The issue in that situation revolves around Google's response time in taking down a video that was deemed to be a privacy violation. Google is worried that a verdict against them could lead to mandatory pre-screening of all public videos that are uploaded onto their websites. Those proceedings have now been postponed until late September.
Update: 6/24 at 17:45 GMT by SS: The article originally reported that Rapidshare was fined $34 million. No such fine has been imposed — $34 million was the estimated value of the tracks hosted on Rapidshare.

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  1. Serves them right. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Guys, stop whining!

    Rapidshit is *the* hub for swapping pirated works and software. I mean i'm all for net neutrality and against condemnation of technologies (bittorrent), but this is a business that somehow manages to distribute huge amounts of stolen material.

  2. Re:But How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What is the viable solution to this?

    You could try paying for the files instead of stealing them. Ass holes -- all of you.

  3. Re:Surprised by TheP4st · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have to share if I want to torrent. I'm not a communist, so I don't share.

    So, you are a greedy selfish fuck who gladly benefits from other peoples bandwith without givin anything in return, so that you won't have to pay money to greedy selfish corporations. You are not a capitalist as you probably like to call yourself (just like I do, but rightfully so) but a parasite.

    Actually you do not have to share when using BT although it is considered good practice and manners , but I am sure as hell am to tell you how not to share on BT, leech!. Another definition of leech.

    I suppose that your mates can not expect a beer in return another day if they treat you to one in the bar tonight.

    --
    "I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold