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the company must also "proactively check content before publishing it" to see if similar files have been posted before and to see if those files infringed content. More strikingly however, Rapidshare has to log IP addresses of "potential infringers

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Didn't the German government learn anything fro WW II ?

Rapidshare.com or Rapidshare.de

Originally posted by DjDanio:

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Rapidshare.com or Rapidshare.de

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Well I would guess the ".de" RS because it is was done in Germany.

However, if both sites are owned by the same "Parent" company then it would very well apply to both companies.

EDITED by Pop_Smith: Oops, I need to re-learn the tags. :P

Rapidshare is a company,not a website.

Rapishare the company has to check files,not any particular site.
Right?

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hahahahahaha.. looks like we will all just have to move our jap pr0n to other places.. like sendspace/zshare etc ;)

Conservative.. err sorry.. Nazi Germany better remember what happens when you impose your laws on outsiders without their permission. I don't think they have any control over what a company does if the business is registered outside the country... Like the USA has no say what happens in Antigua etc.

Ozzy Binliner could make himself a very popular guy if instead of training terrorists with his millions of CIA dollars he set up large file sharing servers in Iran and other places.

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Archives with passwords are also very hard to check, if not impossible.

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ALL files need to be password protected and labeled in a manner as to NOT betray their contents . . .

Originally posted by varnull:

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Conservative.. err sorry.. Nazi Germany better remember what happens

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Nazi Germany was comprised of Fascists..not Conservatives. One core component of Fascism is when the government controls the corporations..kinda like what the Democrats are trying to do with the bailout bill.

Anyways..this will fail, as people will simply password their files and/or encrypt them with PGP.

rename and password your rar files =P

Originally posted by Notcow:

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Rapidshare is a company,not a website.

Rapishare the company has to check files,not any particular site.
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There are 2 sites, de and com. One based in germany (.de), one based in, i think, sweden (.com). Both owned by the same parent company, i think.

Someone clarify for me please! does this apply to .com or not

.com is in germany and .de is in the US. Both owned by Christian Schmid but different organizations are limited.

None are based in the US, read this from the wiki:

In a court-order from July 2nd 2008, based on a copyright infringement of IBM Software in 2006 on rapidshare.DE, the German Oberlandesgericht Hamburg suggested that RapidShare should not only delete reported published copyrighted files, but also ban the responsible uploaders from the service in case they use a static IP-Address. For uploaders with dynamic IPs or those using proxies RapidShare should establish a registration process according to the court. Likewise RapidShare could deep-inspect all uploads of notorious infringers and check not only the MD-5 hash of the file but also the actual content. Password protected files of notorious infringers should be rejected by the service. [9] So far RapidShare has taken no actions to put those suggestions into practice. It's also not clear if the German sentence applies to the Swiss RapidShare.COM.

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Originally posted by varnull:

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Conservative.. err sorry.. Nazi Germany better remember what happens

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Nazi Germany was comprised of Fascists..not Conservatives. One core component of Fascism is when the government controls the corporations..kinda like what the Democrats are trying to do with the bailout bill.

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Oh yeah - try to blame a bailout bill asked for by the Republican President to fix a mess caused by his Republican administration on the Democrats. Good thinking, dumbkoff!

The Democrats and the Republicans both share the blame because they all kowtow to Corporate money -- but statements like yours just make it easier for them. Both are trying to bamboozle people like you and divide people into (weak) camps so they can continue to run things as they please. Wise up or stay subjugated. Your choice.

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Originally posted by varnull:

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Conservative.. err sorry.. Nazi Germany better remember what happens

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Nazi Germany was comprised of Fascists..not Conservatives. One core component of Fascism is when the government controls the corporations..kinda like what the Democrats are trying to do with the bailout bill.

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Mien Gott! Sorry man, fascist does NOT equal communist. Capitalists (read corporations) were cheerfully in bed in the Nazis, and not faking their orgasms either. That really is naive, read some history. And don't blame the Democrats for the un-regulated mess that's occurred, It's all lip-service- free-enterprise this free-enterprise that till the crap hits the fan, then it's "bail me out, I'm a neo-aristocrat, you need me".

I'm not sure what the state of Germany's agreements with other countries regarding court rulings are... but it only matters for the German rapidshare servers. if they removed all servers from Germany then German law would not apply.

whether or not the swiss rapidshare has to comply, or the "company" rapidshare depends on Germany's relationship with Sweden. Considering that not even America can get scanner countries to change their pirating ways despite the global implications makes me think rapidshare is just going to laugh at Germany.