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u-Bob

06-24-2009 11:12 AM

Court Orders Rapidshare To Proactively Filter Content

http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders...ontent-090624/

Quote:

The Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content.

Collections society GEMA claims to represent more than 60,000 composers, authors and music publishers worldwide, protecting their copyrights. After a request by the group, The Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled that hosting service Rapidshare is forbidden from making any of 5,000 music tracks from GEMA?s collection available on the Internet.

Rapidshare was also ordered to delete any and all of those same tracks from its servers and ensure that they are not uploaded again by users. Previously Rapidshare had been using file hashes to recognize tracks that were already removed after requests from GEMA, to ensure that they weren?t uploaded again. The court decided that the technique used was ineffective.

SBJ	06-24-2009 11:15 AM

Wow GREAT news! Lets see if they actually do it now

seeandsee

06-24-2009 11:19 AM

nice start

MaDalton

06-24-2009 11:22 AM

The GEMA is worse than russian money collectors - but good for musicians who depend on their payments

(I think the RIAA is their US equivalent)

notime

06-24-2009 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 15993219)

The GEMA is worse than russian money collectors - but good for musicians who depend on their payments

(I think the RIAA is their US equivalent)

The BUMA-Stemra is similar in Holland as their counterpart. Guess what? They just doubled their rates...So legal sites have to pay double the prices (next to paying the record companies). Many legal sites therefore given up and shut down since there's no money in legal music online :Oh crap

MaDalton

06-24-2009 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by notime (Post 15994145)

yeah, Youtube had to delete a couple of thousand videos for german users cause the GEMA demanded so much that Youtube lost too much money.

the thing is: i know many musicians who live from their GEMA income, even 20 years after they had success. without GEMA most of them would be completely broke.

on the other hand the GEMA is extremely rigid when it comes to taking money from clubs. bars etc. and the guys who work for them very often drive very nice and expensive cars. :disgust

Socks

06-24-2009 06:07 PM

Could be interesting, because if they can't comply with keeping the stuff off their sites, what's the next step? With Napster, they were forced to comply with a similar ruling, and couldn't comply. They had to shut down due to non-compliance.

Is that how it's going to work in Germany?

Also this may open the door to more sites being targeted, through legal precedent.

Young

06-24-2009 06:10 PM

Does this apply to Rapidshare.de or Rapidshare.com. They pretty much operate as two separate websites.

Socks

06-24-2009 06:12 PM

Probably applies to their company, not a website.

BlackCrayon

06-24-2009 06:14 PM

i know they were already deleting some stuff but only from the huge mainstream companies.

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