Rapidshare.com loses court battle

ninja9 · Post time 5-2-2008 07:48 PM

Rapidshare.com loses court battle

According to P2P blog, the German music rights holder GEMA has won its court case against the massive file hoster Rapidshare.com. In a press release, GEMA announced that the Dusseldorf district court had ruled that Rapidshare will for now on have to block access to any works in the GEMA repertoire.

In its defense, Rapidshare was saying that "only its users can be held responsible for copyright violations." The court apparently disagreed and said that the site was used mainly for illegal activities and that the company generates "substantial" monthly revenue from those illegal activities.

The ruling could have implications for the future of the site on the whole. GEMA's press release read, "The ruling forces Rapidshare to 'take measures that might have the risk of making Rapidshare's service substantially less attractive or even close it down completely.'" That statement means that potentially GEMA can get the entire site shut down if access isn't blocked to GEMA's copy written material.

In the past year GEMA has won two injunctions against the file hoster but never an actual court case. Rapidshare.com is based in Switzerland but Rapidshare.de was originally founded in Germany.

kes dengan GEMA jer kot... abis ler tak leh nak download movie ...

metalique · Post time 5-2-2008 07:53 PM

abis la.......

bzzts · Post time 5-2-2008 07:54 PM

waaa... nape la tak menang... kalo menang kan best...

abis tu org yg upload/download tu tak kena dakwa la ek?
jangan pasni repidshare gi saman user yg upload pulak udah la...

mehacomp_91 · Post time 5-2-2008 07:56 PM

nampaknya raya cina ni kena ngadap pc la gamaknya

nak download habis-habisan

metalique · Post time 5-2-2008 07:57 PM

meha ade premium acc. ke ?? ... mind nak share ???

MulutBecok · Post time 5-2-2008 08:04 PM

hope kes ni dengan GEMA je

jangan plak nanti berjangkit kat sykt2 laen

mehacomp_91 · Post time 5-2-2008 08:04 PM

tak pakai free acc je

metalique · Post time 5-2-2008 08:04 PM

meha bak password ngan user name rapid share

p/s: takut megaupload pn kene ... dah la torrent semput

mehacomp_91 · Post time 5-2-2008 08:05 PM

hai lama tak nampak

mehacomp_91 · Post time 5-2-2008 08:05 PM

nah amik la

Zep · Post time 5-2-2008 08:06 PM

Habis la RS lepas ni. zaman RS akan berakhir tak lama lagi

mehacomp_91 · Post time 5-2-2008 08:08 PM

Tidaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkk!!!

metalique · Post time 5-2-2008 08:09 PM

free ???

trunks · Post time 6-2-2008 02:24 AM

Originally posted by ninja9 at 5-2-2008 07:48 PM In its defense,

Rapidshare was saying that "only its users can be held responsible for copyright violations."
The court apparently disagreed and said that the site was used mainly for illegal activities
and that the company generates "substantial" monthly revenue from those illegal activities.

ek eleh...nak salahkan users pulak..diaorang yang dapat banyak income
premium account tu..

[ Last edited by trunks at 10-2-2008 10:13 AM ]