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Rapidshare Loses in Court - Must Proactively Remove Copyrighted Content

By DrewWilson

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The long awaited court ruling has arrived and it may be very bad news for the ever-present content hosting website Rapidshare. A court ruled recently in Germany that the website must not only take down content based on a legal claim, but proactively take down copyrighted content on it's own. It was only yesterday that the subject of file-hosting came up in a discussion about link sharing. A report from P2P-Blog pointed to a German court ruling (German) that said that not only does the file-hosting service has to comply with copyright complaints, but also check every file for copyright infringement. Rapidshare's argument that it is already fighting copyright infringement appears to have not worked.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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