Comments on: Ouch! German Court Slams Rapidshare With $34 Million Fine (Updated)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:48:28 +0000

I work for ShareFile (http://www.sharefile.com) and we follow these developments pretty closely.

Personally, unless the ISPs do something, then these types of sites will just keep popping up again and again.

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By: Eh

Eh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:58:37 +0000

Or where he’s at*

By: Eh

Eh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:58:08 +0000

Sort of like saying why the heck does US want Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan, then (If Afghanistan is where he is from)?

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By: Usenet case reminds us to be proud being labeled a pirate! « Mr. Foggs Log

Usenet case reminds us to be proud being labeled a pirate! « Mr. Foggs Log — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:04:44 +0000

[...] A Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has fined the file-hosting service a hefty $34 million and has ruled that the company must start proactively filtering certain content. This is labeled censorship in other contexts. Following a request made by GEMA, the Hamburg court ruled that Rapidshare is forbidden from making any of 5,000 music tracks from GEMA’s collection available on the Internet. To comply, the company needs to make sure all of those tracks are removed from its servers and also ensure that they are not uploaded again by users. How the company is expected to do the latter, especially since many users upload files in compressed formats and password-protect them, is a mystery to me. And forbidding formats or restrict the way data is stored on a server does clearly infringe your right for privacy. But if you insist on your personal rights (like your right for free information or speech) you might be labeled a pirate. Bottom line is, all this suggests that hosting sites – including Rapidshare, box.net or else – could be subject to future RIAA action, or any collecting society or any one not interested in your personal rights any more. But will you step aside then, too? So who‘s next? Leave a Comment No Comments Yet so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Click here to cancel reply. Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:

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By: » Rapidshare Reamed Amazing Wow: A Modern Music Label » Rapidshare Reamed Amazing Wow: A Modern Music Label — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:44:32 +0000 [...] that Rapidshare, everyone’s most/least favorite multi-petabyte hoster, was ordered to remove $34 million worth of content, and faces a potentially huge fine by order of a German [...] By: martinaxman martinaxman — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:16:11 +0000 I disagree. In most cases there isn’t much they can do to determine exactly what is passing through their service. To expect them to decrypt and peruse every file is unreasonable and unrealistic. I also disagree that it is unfair all around. People buy music in digital format now because the marketers make it difficult to buy it otherwise. Pushing everything onto digital sites means they no longer have to build artwork and fashion packaging for the music that is being circulated. Still they charge five times what it is actually worth and continue to raise prices. The artists see little if any of that. So it’s not really in their interest to pursue this kind of action, and that explains why the lawyers and RIAA are going after them. I will always purchase my music as close to the artists as I can. If there’s a way to cut the parasites out of the picture by going directly to the artist’s website, I’ll do that too. They have made statements that the only way to make money anymore is to tour. Interesting how the lawyers and RIAA are swimming in so much dough that they can attack people all over the world including working single moms who have no idea what the kids are doing while she’s at work. These are heartless money sucking leeches we’re talking about here. I have no sympathy for them at all. Support your artists. Screw the lawyers. By: martinaxman martinaxman — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:55 +0000 WAY too much. Think about it. Prior to CDs albums in the US cost about $3.79 When CDs were first produced they cost about $7 with the promise of reduced pricing once the media became common. Since then they have increased and increased for no reason at all. Technology is dirt cheap, and the artists do NOT benefit from the higher prices. It’s the marketers and lawyers who are sucking the business dry. Ok, let’s calculate. $1.29 for one song TIMES 15 songs on the average album. tick tick buzz buzz, that’s $19.35!! Almost $20 for package and piece of plastic that costs them all of $.50 to produce and market. Subtract $.50 for the online rip offs and the constant amounts that the artists are receiving. So who’s the big thief? I am 100% for supporting the people who actually produce music, the artists! Support your artists, screw the lawyers and middle men thieves! Leave Rapidshare alone. All they do is host files. Supporting this kind of illegal attack on a host only enables and furthers the thievery of these middle men. By: Samaw Samaw — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:25:38 +0000 Kindly correct spelling mistake of Rapidshare at “Rapishare COO Bobby Chang, according to” Rapishare is not correct! By: Music News Around The Web | pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four's Music and Media Blog Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:19:35 +0000 [...] Interview The UK Top 40 charts to include music streaming and subscription data German court fines RapidShare $34 million Music and sports critic Steven Wells dies Moby – the RIAA should be disbanded Portland’s [...] By: Una corte alemana multa a Rapidshare por 34 millones de dólares | Geekets Una corte alemana multa a Rapidshare por 34 millones de dólares | Geekets — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:09:30 +0000 [...] TechCruch, la manera en la que harán esto es aún un misterio ya que muchos usuarios suben sus archivos en [...] By: izzy izzy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:31:20 +0000 First there was Napster …. then Kazaa … then Pirate Bay …. now Rapidshare what’s next … By: Rapidshare es multado en Alemania con 24 millones de euros Rapidshare es multado en Alemania con 24 millones de euros — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:01:59 +0000 [...] información en: Techcrunch Lee más sobre: Noticias Noticias relacionadasComplemento de Firefox para saltear las esperas en [...]
By: Julia Mak

Julia Mak — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:13:51 +0000

There is a different between free consumer file hosting services than an actual business service provider. With services like Rapidshare, there are too many risks involved and lack IT administrative control.

We discussed the difference between the two grades of services in our blog a while ago: http://blog.lea...le-hosting.html

By: Joe Smith

Joe Smith — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:35:01 +0000

Back in the day when Napster was “the” only player in the music sharing game, I proposed that music and movie companies see the piracy market as an untapped market for revenue. No matter what is done piracy will never be stopped. It’s just the nature of the beast. I proposed that a “shareware” policy be taken regarding the piracy market. If you download a song or a movie and you benefit from it then there should be a means to “donate” monies. Don’t I find it disgusting to pay almost $10 USD for a movie and find out that it’s terrible. I wouldn’t mind sending in money for products that benefit me. I believe in supporting artists and creators of movies / software. Of course you’ll always have some “freeloaders”, but I think that these production houses would find the money rolling in unexpectedly. What do these production houses have to lose. Try it out for a sample period and see if it’s worth it. If it doesn’t work out, then you haven’t lost anything, but if it does work that’s untapped revenue coming in.

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