ZitZot: Google and Microsoft sued for links to filesharing sites
Mini music label Blue Destiny Records has sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly “facilitating and enabling” the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.
Filed on Monday with a US federal court in Northern Florida, the suit is an attempt to choke off the distribution of Blue Destiny tunes on the Germany-based file-sharing service RapidShare, also named as a defendant. It accuses RapidShare of knowingly running “a distribution center for unlawful copies of copyrighted works,” while claiming that Google and Microsoft are propping the company up.
According to the suit, RapidShare benefits from ad relationships with the two search giants. “RapidShare generates revenue by selling subscriptions for its high-speed download services, and through advertising dollars generated by its advertising partnerships with Google and Microsoft,” the suit reads. “RapidShare’s business success is accomplished only with the knowing assistance of these two top search engines – Google and Microsoft’s Bing.”
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Comments (66)
nice
Bing
The best ever
hope they shut down RS
then MU can take over
Who the hell wants to d/l their crappy music ANYWAY!?
MU Sucks balls, Rapidshare4ever!!!
@4 crappy ppl?
Please sue the balls off of rapidshare so they disappear.
please dont say bad words
there are kids here too
thank you
yeah!
please shut down rapidshare!
the worst host, and expensive.
Nice try to get some money from Google and MS.
Rapidshare will fall sooner or later, but in its place 2 new file hosters will rise up.
RS defending line is that thay immediately remove illegal files when complaints received. And this line works fine until now.
We will see, but it is not an easy to start fighting with colossus like Google or Ms… You might get hurt in a process…
there done with torrents
there coming after our DIRECT LINKS !!! NOOOOOO
dont touch my hotfile
Aren’t Hotfile running a dangerous game by sponsering sites like this? they’re directly encouraging Warez to be uploaded and shared via their service.
kazaa, edonkey, limewire, bitorrent, rs, mu etc etc.
Do not worry.
The net has always evolved.
Exactly BakedBread, I don’t know why some of you are spouting off about rapidshare for because when this is all said and done and RS folds and goes belly up someone : the government,
the music or the movie industry will just press lawsuits on all our favorite direct download link providers………… so laugh your asses off now, while you can LOL
can people please explain…why is MU better yhan RS…
….i have used RS for years….the best ever….you can get everything…especially old and rare stuff…MU is more expensive and has much less stuff….im not talking about recent releases….you can get those from everywhere…
its not just improvements we all spent good money on our hosts
is this bad news for my mu account
what case can there b if we all buy something we want to save it
back it up, away from theft, avoid misplaced lose, never deal with scratches living in fear will my disc still work
if i do actually buy this or that
i naturally do want to save it now i can i can save it to a host i take it anywhere theres net
very simple mu is faster downs a lot faster
u can get an album in a min no joke
u can get a under gb film in 20-30 min
no matter where u r u will down fast rs has low speeds in europe mu does not
rs has expiring points mu does not
mu has unlimited accounts rs does not
mu has a resume uploads later option rs does not
just a few greats
I use Megashares when I want to send or share large amounts of pictures or other file to my friends and family since the average e-mail only allows you to send about 10Mb.. depending on the service you use. These file hosts are a pretty important asset to the internet and will surely prevail, but will probably have to enforce laws or rules ratther, that are more strict when it comes to copyright infringment… eventually. We’ll see. till then keep posting MS links!! Its basically like letting your friend borrow a movie ya know!!
wait a 1gb file in 20-30 minutes for MU? … im pretty sure i get similar with RS. But thats taking a 1gb movie divided into 6-10 smaller files which i can download 5 at a time, i would have a 1gb in about 20 i think
I heard it was a way to search Rapidshare servers for specific titles or files. Is this true? If so how?
@17 I can download 700mb movie from Rapidshare in around 5 mins, and im from the UK… it also does depend on your internet connection speed.
WOW, It sure has taken a few years, but I thought this would happen eventually.
So, RS hosts illegal content within their servers. So what? Everything or almost everyone downloads files from RS, MU, HF, etc. that are compressed. They may check file names, but not what’s inside. Change the file name to something else and problem solved. Blue Destiny Records is going for the easy cash, since most never heard of them or bought their music.
@21 700mb in 5 mins in the uk??? how??? I would like to know this, i suspect that 99% of the uk broadband connections can not d/l this fast
And what happens if I use RS, or any other service, for backup? I own thousands of CDs and they are fading away. So I make backup copies of them to be stored with these services. Is this illegal? And what happens if I want to retrieve them later. The music industry is full of BS! What they want is easy money, nothing else.
you are fools… MEDIAFIRE WILL REIGN SUPREME!!!!!!
If rapdshare goes the rest will follow soon after,so i wouldn’t be so quick to wish rapidshares’ downfall,if you don’t like them don’t use them,,i use RS and megashares and get my top speed off both.
you are all fools. mediafire will reign supreme !!!
well this is stupid i cant even post a comment. rlslog sucks more and more everyday
I hope they successfully sue Rapidshare then get their asses counter-sued by Microsoft and Google.
Rapidshare has gotten ridiculously worse over the past year…
First the dramatic decrease of premium member download allowances, then again… and now erratic performance.
Hotfile >> Rapidshare but if you’re smart you won’t waste time with any of Rapidshare/Hotfile/Megaupload/Megashares/etc — you’ll go straight to Usenet.
jadakiss… not rslog, you suck !
RS is one of the best out there until one of you cheap asses actually pays for a premium account rather than use the free service you can’t say anything.
Yes, RS, there is nothing better and faster. I download a 700meg movie in 5 minutes…
As for money grubbing bums, why is that?
There are a business and businesses have make money to run business. And for what you, get it is WELL worth it.
I’m a premium RS user and I have never been capped at 5gb per day and I have often downloaded ridiculous amounts in one day. Plus you find almost everything on RS and I always get top speeds. The only thing that pisses me off is the “file can be downloaded 10 times” thing when you upload, although it’s easily circumvented.
Yes MU is has become the best free service and they have greatly improved over the past year or so. But being the best free service is just not a good business strategy. It just means that many will use it but only a few will pay for it.
As for the court case, I’m guessing this crappy little record label are hoping for a quick settlement because I can’t imagine many people uploading or downloading their music so their claim can’t be that high and they definitely don’t have the money for a long drawn out lawsuit. I would also presume Google, MS and RS don’t want a ruling that would set a precedence so here’s hoping they’ll settle.
What a load of bullsh*t.
There are thousands of websites with RS links on.
Do they expect Google to moderate billions of results.
F**king internet censorship…it’s going to start getting like China
This ‘sueing’ tradition is starting to piss me off.
And they think… They will get sales by this? I think that downloading generates sales. I know every single one of my favorite artist through downloading, I know all the cool movies, by downloading, and in the end, you buy what you like the most, not what you like in general. You can have over 2000 downloaded albums, and maybe 20 albums off all of that. Maybe a little more. But you like each and one of them.
Instead when u download like, no albums? Then you end up buying bad albums, and albums you dont listen to. yes, they want us to waste money
Torrents are the way to go.
purchasing premium accounts is paying another person for pirated content.
It’s stupid and I hope they get sued till all the money they made is gone.
Sharing with each other, via torrents or w/e, at least no one is profiting off of it.
@ jadakis
For sure man mediafire rules.
@40
good point, do you think sites that offer free subdomains will eventually be the new sources?
1st of all to all of you who don’t understand anything.
you are comparing RS with MU !! there is no way for that
1 – RS have the pause and resume for the uploads!
2 – great speed for download, i have 24mb ADSL2 and when im downloading the speed of the download is 3mb per second ! that mean 180mb per min, 10.8GB per hour! and you can find everything u want to find in RS but with MU, u need to search hard to find anything and it sucks !
3 – with RS points you can extend your account, i only did pay the 1st year then i never pay for the last 2 years coz i upload and other download it and i get points for that, and i renew my account for FREE ! does MU have this ? hell no !
so at the end RS rules!!! and MU suck my @#$@
pffft blue destiny ? wth are they ? I just read on the zitzot website about them trying to take down the links via DMCA, but one thing they gotta remember.. search engine spiders. To me it seems that Blue destiny indeed are trying to gain more monies by going after two major industries in the world wide web anyone with atleast half a brain would go direct to the file hosting site in question! Not a frigging search engine, Dont they realize that if the search engines put a block on certain keywords pertaining to blue destiny, then does that not mean that blue destiny goes behind the scenes due to not having many keywords ?So in order for people to actually find out about blue destiny then they would only be able to get to their site by using a direct url to their website, but as I said before! blue destiny who the hell are they ? so either way they still do not mean anything to me :-p
its like shooting a tank with a BB gun
lol this is classic. Hopefully the big music companies will try to sue MS and Google as well (for linking to copyright material) and then the music companies will get their ass kicked.
The outcome would certainly be very interesting since they are always trying to take down torrent sites who only link to copyright material like Google does.
Google and MS will annihilate those bastards and then they’d have no say in torrent sites.
@40
you must have all the time in the world…
hope they shutdown everything and we go back to the fxp scene. being this much public is not good.
RLSLOG SUCK COMMENT SECTION
Who cares wich is best mu rs whatever..
No need to pay for any of those sites, just use Jdownloader and copy the links and it changes your IP for each file =
no need for premium anything…
so doesnt really matter wich host they shut down
pfff, what’s going to happen next? so what? It is not my money that is wasting on the law suit. Their is always another site in replacement for rap!dshare.
is Blue Destiny Records (BDR) stupid? I can see BDR is no different than a gold digger. Ending rap!dshare or having Google/MS put on a filter, it is not gonna stop anything or do any better.
This is a purely compensation factor!.
@42:
1 – Of course you can pause and resume with MU!
2 – MU can max out my 100Mb connection (which is realistically 80Mb), as can RS, so any difference?
3 – MU have the same system of using points to extend your membership, as well as earning money. However, they don’t expire like they do with RS, so MU would score better there.
Megaupload is unlimited, unlike RS with it’s unlimited package limited to 5Gb per day!! That’s very poor, especially as people’s connections get faster and faster, and file sizes get bigger and bigger. To download a blu-ray movie with RS, no matter how fast your connection, would take between 5 and 10 days (depending on whether 25Gb or 50Gb) etc
So really, your only valid point is that there is more choice with RS at the moment… But that is changing as people realise they’re getting worse.
Maybe you should do some research before spouting bollox in future? Make informed points?
BS!
ive known rapidshare for years and i never used a stupid search engine for it..
@18 Joy
Putting your children in front of the computer all day and expecting the rest of the world to keep it kid-friendly = FAIL! You wouldn’t drop your kids off at a park bench all day and let bums raise them would you??? Parents spending time with their own ahole kids instead of pushing them onto total strangers like me = FOR THE WIN!
Bad Hoe! @54
My God!!
Are you sick or what??
maybe some kind of animal
@52
you hit it spot on….eff Rapidshare
shut up
please.
@52:
MU sucks. It force its premium users to download through MegaManager. Unlike RS which support general freeware like FlashGet which is the best download manager on the planet.
And you can download as many blu-ray as you like. All you need is some $ to buy traffic share package.
And by calculation, buying a real blu-ray disc movie is far more efficient than downloading a blu-ray movie. At least you own a physical copy and no hard disk space require for storage. The price of a 50GB space on hard disk is more expensive than a blu-ray disc.
rs is hardly slow.
I download at 1.2mbps constant from rs, EVERYTIME.
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