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RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine

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RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine

Earlier this year, cyberlocker service RapidShare was ordered by a court to remove nearly 150 electronic books from its archives and prevent users from re-uploading them by implementing a filter. According to the publishers who brought the case, RapidShare quickly breached the injunction. Today, the Regional Court of Hamburg agreed and hit the file-hosting company with a 150,000 euro fine.

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http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-gets-150000-euro-copyright-infringement-fine-101201/
 
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The Court stated that RapidShare “…culpably failed to take reasonable examination and control measures. These measures include the utilization of a word filter, which checks the file name during the uploading of files to the servers of [Rapidshare] with regard to whether the author, the title, the ISBN number of the publisher may be contained in this name.”
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This show's now that you do have to use fancy or encrypted names when uploading files to avoid being detected by filters. eg if you upload name-of-book.rar it will probably be deleted faster than a3g3nwi478h3wafiuhma.rar

RapidShare was also ordered by the Court to install a word filter for new user uploads and is also “required to search the relevant popular external link libraries for links to files with the works in dispute.”
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So that means Rapidshare has to search warez sites too? Dam that's a near impossible job and also shows they are going to screw themselves even more.

This court case could really be the beginning of the end for file hosts and not just Rapidshare. I don't know why ye are cellebrating. This can be used as an example when bringing other file hosts to court as a precidence.
 
aapkae said:
totally agree with you Mr happy,this can be the beginning of ending era for file hosts
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ah don't get carried away, live for today and celebrate who knows what tomorrow will bring.

warez is always going to be there even if there isn't going to be filehosting i know people will find a way to share it but it is a serious busyness for ddl sites like katz.

150.000 Euro's for somebody like RS is nothing but i hope HF and MU are ready for the court soon, rofl. ;)
 
On February 4th 2010, a group of large book publishers filed a lawsuit against file-hosting service, RapidShare.........
So, they got a warning on Feb 4th 2010
Then they breached the policy again, and it wasn't noticed until 10 months later

FROM FEB4TH TO DEC1ST THEY HAVE BEEN BREACHING THE POLICY WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT. LOL
 
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