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

Posted by timothy on Friday March 30, 2012 @05:12PM from the some-zwiespÃ¤ltigkeit-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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Re:So they left out the good part by thegarbz · 2012-03-30 17:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

Most sites I see rapidshare style linkage on uses anonymizer services to hide the referrer for exactly that reason.
No reason to make the link unclickable these days.