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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
Until some legal authority manages to force them to check everything and makes it definitely 100% RapidShare's responsibility to check what it is they are offering downloaders they aren't going to want to fuck up their own piracy based business model by policing stuff any more than they actually have to.
You can't make a law that only covers one specific thing it always ends up having a knock on effect that nobody had properly thought about. Forcing RapidShare to check absolutely everything that ends up on their servers will also have a knock on effect to ordinary web hosts. What's going to happen when you can't ftp stuff onto your own site because someone in India has to check it all due to someone rushing through badly thought out legislation?
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That are some valid points. But also black and white.
I think the solution to that problem, is to make the law reasonable and focus on the technology parts. If the service proves to attract and serve repeated crimes, there should be laws that automatically force the service and it's users into self regulation.
In the end, it's not about the content, but who committed a crime. Identification and requirements to cooperate with authorities/copyrighter must be priority. Failure to comply, should treaten their entire business.