Rapidshare one of the largest file hosters in the world, is currently under heavy fire in Germany. The Gema, which administers the copyrights of more than 60,000 members as well as those of over 1 million rights owners from all corners of the world managed to get a court ruling in their favor. The court ruled (German website) that the hoster could be held responsible for copyright violations committed by users who upload copyrighted material to Rapidshare servers. The court furthermore ruled that Rapidshare had to implement filters that would prevent further copyright violations.
GEMA’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Harald Heker commented: “The Court’s decision confirms that it cannot be the task of the rights owners to control at their own cost the continued operation of services, which generate commercial profit from unlawful use of their works. This decision will also send out a major signal to all services enlisting the help of the individual users to create a comprehensive illegal offer and then in the end to use this offer for generating revenue for themselves”.
Rapidshare announced the same day that they would appeal the ruling. The current ruling would have a drastic impact on every company that would operate from Germany (Europe) offering free disk space to their users. It is also important to note that it would be technically impossible to check every uploaded file if it would violate a copyright. It is for instance perfectly legal to upload a private copy of album to make it available to close friends. How would Rapidshare be able to verify if the uploaded file would violate copyright ?
It is in my opinion ridiculous to demand that Rapidshare, or any other company or individual who are providing webspace, is responsible for the copyright infringements of users who upload copyrighted files to the service. This would essentially mean that every webspace provider could be held responsible of a user would upload copyrighted files to rented webspace.
source : http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/28/rapidshare-vs-gema/
GEMA’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Harald Heker commented: “The Court’s decision confirms that it cannot be the task of the rights owners to control at their own cost the continued operation of services, which generate commercial profit from unlawful use of their works. This decision will also send out a major signal to all services enlisting the help of the individual users to create a comprehensive illegal offer and then in the end to use this offer for generating revenue for themselves”.
Rapidshare announced the same day that they would appeal the ruling. The current ruling would have a drastic impact on every company that would operate from Germany (Europe) offering free disk space to their users. It is also important to note that it would be technically impossible to check every uploaded file if it would violate a copyright. It is for instance perfectly legal to upload a private copy of album to make it available to close friends. How would Rapidshare be able to verify if the uploaded file would violate copyright ?
It is in my opinion ridiculous to demand that Rapidshare, or any other company or individual who are providing webspace, is responsible for the copyright infringements of users who upload copyrighted files to the service. This would essentially mean that every webspace provider could be held responsible of a user would upload copyrighted files to rented webspace.
source : http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/28/rapidshare-vs-gema/
apoi copyrighted files tika RS eken allala del karuwoth download karalahamarai, eth ekanan impossible 2 find those files, moka monava kalath ul karanakattiya ul karai dl karana kattiya dl karai.. 
