Rapidshare Loses in Court - Must Proactively Remove Copyrighted Content
Date : 2008 10 01 Category : Web News
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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.