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German Court Rules Rapidshare Is Legal, But Must Adjust Content Policies

Posted by timothy on from the some-zwiespältigkeit-with-that? dept.

New submitter loosescrews writes "Online file locker Rapidshare is legal in Germany, but has to adjust its policy regarding infringing content, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled. Rapidshare plans to appeal. Rapidshare was sued by the German copyright organization Gema which represents 64.000 copyright holders. After reading the verdict, both parties claim they are victorious."

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  1. Re:"Both parties claim they are victorious" by SydShamino · · Score: 5, Funny

    As it happens, though, it was the lawyers for both parties talking. After that they went out together for caviar.

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  2. Re:So they left out the good part by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Funny

    !!!! WELL THANKS A LOT SLASHDOT, you don't support unicode, but you turn my text post into a link even when I didn't add the a href tags. :-(