RapidShare Declared Legal In Court, With a Twist

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Well, seeing that they didn't lose is good but the implications are still not trivial. RS has to monitor external sites linking to its content and remove it incase it is infringing.

That is ridiculous, I am glad that they plan to appeal. They should not be forced to basically scrape the whole web based on (faked or not) referrals for links which might include copyrighted content.

It's not like youtube has to monitor any sites which are linking to infringing content...

In Germany.

I can't stand Torrentfreak for their sensationalist, tabloid, hypist style. They LOVE to title like this, did so many times in the past, and then you find out "in Spain" or "in Germany". Things like this are why I often wish online advertising never happened and nor did anything else where pageviews are considered more important that truthful, accurate and honest sharing of information. </rant>

Spain and Germany are hardly insignificant countries.

What you mean is "it's not in the US, and if it doesn't mention a country, I immediately think it's the US. I feel like an idiot for doing that, so I'm going to rant."

I wasn't suggesting the story doesn't matter since it's in Germany, but rather that on an international website, the national context helps and should be in the title - even if the nation is the USA.

No, that is not what I mean. The internet is international so if country-specific things happen, one should be upfront and not vague.

And before anyone goes on some "you silly US american" rant, I am from Europe.

Unless you were trying to compete with them and don't want to move there (decent country), does it matter?

It only takes one country to host it, any other country can download from it.

This makes sense!

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