ZitZot: Rapidshare fined €24m for hosting illegal songs
File hosting service Rapidshare has been fined €24m by a German court and ordered to filter online content more effectively. German royalties collector GEMA, which brought the case against the company, had called on the Regional Court in Hamburg to order Rapidshare to prohibit around 5,000 music tracks from being made available online.
“The judgment states that the hosting service itself is now responsible for making sure that none of the music tracks concerned are distributed via its platform in the future,” according to a GEMA.
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Comments(114)
QUI MANGE TOUTE DLA MARDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not true, they didnt get finned…
http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-rapidshare-to-proactively-filter-content-090624/
So basically.. GL trying to up anything onto rapidshare anymore.. Good thing my account with them expired a few days ago.
Can see a lot of RS users jumping from that burning ship when their accounts come round for re-activation. Screw it, every decent site (and up-er) seems to be using Hotfile now anyway.
This is so stupid. The only "filtering" they could use to prevent this stuff from being uploaded would impose annoying issues for their paying customers preventing the company from functioning properly…
What Fogh said; the article was updated – and this post needs to be updated as well!
Wow martin,
Your quick at not copying news.
Already packed and well corrected
No pass, enjoy
http://rapidshare.com/files/999999999/rapidshare_huge_fine.rar
Just kidding.
I sense that RS will move their servers to some off-shore company…
)))
RS LINKS PLEASE…
that's a huge fine. ridiculous
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Mr. X staff member
June 26th, 2009 | 19:11
that's a huge fine. ridiculous
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there is no fine! remember … dont steal false news
24million euro fine for 5000 songs? that's bullsh*t when you can get them legally for 1 euro why not just fine them the cost of purchasing the songs? American ideology of excessive fines and punishment are spreading to europe which is sad to see.
The Estimated Value of the Tracks is 24 million … NOT THE FINE.
Sounds like this was a post made to promote that hotfile crap, which is a slow and BS site.
I get twice the download speed from rapidcrap, and 4 times the speed from megaupload than I do from that bs site hotfile.
Plus if you are using the free function hotfile makes you wait longer in between files than most other sites.
MU doesn't make you wait at all.
How can a German Judge rule over a Company that is "resided" in Switzerland ???
yes I have a Rapid-Premium and Netload and both rock on the download speed !
i thought that germany had it's own rapidshare domain and servers
so basicly this should only affect the servers in germany so rapidshare.com should be safe
@ shirapidshare
I agree with you.
…literally…
RS is dying
how can rapidshare check password encrypted files?
i couldn't care less about rapidshare i hope gets shut down, it's slow crap and also u have 2 wait every 15mins for each download which sucks i am talking about the free one
i would like to switch to another filehoster like netload etc but there isn't any software for those sites as convenient as jloader or msd. downloading every link seperatly with a browser doesn't work for me.
thanks breeze
can u tell mew what script new in newtorrents.info
Rapidshare is garbage. Always has been. But it is a thousand, no billion times better than Hotfile. It's even worse than RS.
@22 Jdownloader works for Netload and almost everything else I have only found like 2 file sharing sites that are not supported by Jdownloader.
Copy the links and add them they do work trust me
I have to disagree with you "Breeze" This is starting to sound like a promotion for Hotfile!
I took a 3 day trial membership with them and they sucked on the download speed. Then on free download half of the time it times out and skips to tell U that you allready have used max download with empty pocket's.
I will stick to the Europe Servers and happy to chuck out the money for Premium.
Amen
Megashares rules. Rapidshare is for porn
Its lovely how people are complaining about a company supporting fast downloads for a few years now. JD-Downloader and MSD are great programs to use like 22 said. And RS is fast, easy to use and paypal supportive. Cant really think of something else to want.
So the people complaining should maybe bring at least a few arguments.
everything is better than hotfile… and it sounds as rlslog.net is doing somme kind of an anti-rapidshare propaganda!!!
The truth is that if they block illegal content they lose 99% of their customers. ^^
And hotfile can be the next target of those crap lawyers. When this dog catch cat game will have an end?
Maybe when softwares/games/movies companies start selling their products for a lower price? A game, for example, is just a crap CD contening an appplication that most of times is discarded after we zeroe it. If you wanna play online you still need sometimes to pay for that service. Come on, do you guys think we are stupids? Life to the scene!
lmao, rapidshare should move out of Germany, other wise its gonna have some huge problems, whit all this laws against piracy in Germany they will be close soon, lol
RS SUCKS big time
Rlslog Sucks small Time
and i just suck
i thought rapidshare.com has relocated to Turkey? it appears so on my statement…. only rapidshare.de is still stupid enough to stay there and gets fined!!!!
rapidshare is the best file-sharing site ever!!!!!
is it true or what ? watsup with these comments ?
this is bs its only to get people to use hotfile instead of rapidshare nice try RLSLOG.NET but hotfile sucks if I download a sample I have to wait an hour to download another file its ridiculous
No more FREEDOM
Megaupload is the best \m/
Im h0rny for RS !!
oh my n1pplez r SO HARD
MU pwns all, hail megaupload, all others including RS & hotfile suck a s s.
jdownloader is good for free downloads,but after they updated it,speed has decreased!!!for example Netload,i was downloading at 250-350 kb/s and i can't get pass 30-50 kb/s!!!!
[QUOTE]this is bs its only to get people to use hotfile instead of rapidshare nice try RLSLOG.NET but hotfile sucks if I download a sample I have to wait an hour to download another file its ridiculous[/QUOTE]
NO its not! BUY Premium you !@#$!@$ noob, or GTFO.
Over gold times Rapidshare.
damn ! 24 millions ? OMFG!
that's roughly 38 millions of US dollars.that's a lot of paper they'll have to shell out for those songz. They want to force us to use deposit file huh ! er no . I 'll stick to MU, I looooove MU .
are people still downloading music, you can streem every single song why waste bandwidth for that.
get your BS right … TF has corrected it days ago. they didnt get any fine it's just the fictional value by which the lawyers wages are measured.
does anybody know when when an r5 or dvdrip of adventureland will release?
Mr X is staff again, huh? What a douche. First he leaves and takes other staff members with him because he can't handle something, and now has the audacity to return..
The speed of Jdownloader has nothing to do with the program if the speeds have dropped from certain sites then its the sites policies that have changed I still dl at 500kbs as a free user on MU
with netload u get 1mbs downstream as free user….
at shareoline you can download up to 4 or 5 files an other with quite a good speed, and no waiting for free users…
hotfile you can download 1 file an hour, no matter what size
This story was reported on other sites days ago, and everyone has already corrected their stories. RS wasn't fined anything.
This is a load of snots. If all uploaders named the file with anything other than the original file name RS can't search or be responsible… In Ireland at the moment the ISP's are being pressured By the Music rights twats about torrents etc…
Ps… Anyone know where Lars Ulrich is?
who is lars ulrich?^^
Fcuk Lars Ulrich
lars ulrich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuR5TNyL8Y
pfff guys get into a private tracker
RS sucks like SH!T
why in hell would I pay for illegal downloads, seriously…
rapidshare.de? germany?
@52… drummer from Metallica
P.S. Metallica is the reason file sharing is illegal.. remember Napster..
The.Haunting.In.Connecticut.EXTENDED.DVDRip.XviD-DiAMOND
RLSLOG .. stop pushing us to buy hotfile accounts…
Rapidshare is Still going very well ! and its not true that they fined RS to pay
why don't u all start using free services like mediafire? u love to waste your money or what?
Mediafire = no waiting times, 400KB to 600KB download speed with my 7Mb connection for a single download, unlimited number of simultaneous downloads.If u want to get higher download speeds just use Jdownloader and download 20 files at once i reach 880 almost full bandwidth
any one can download free megaupload 8mg in my server
freee now
30 day
http://rapidshare.com/files/248996340/Mohalammari.rar
enjoey
GOOD!!!
It’s about time Rapidshare got a kick up the arse!
They’ve made millions hosting illegal files…
Rant over.
Off to download something form Rapids, er I mean ITunes.
why don't u all start using services like rapidshare? u love to waste your money or what?
Rapidshare = no waiting times, 4000KB download speed with my 40Mb connection for a single download, unlimited number of simultaneous downloads.
./signed @63
Please donate to rapidshare! They are going to need your mo!!!
He who giveth is a saint!
rlslog has sold itself out.
Obviously promoting hotfile, how pathetic.
As stated by everyone else, there are MANY better filehosters.
From mediafire, megaupload, 2shared, flyupload…ect ect ect. Even rapidshare is better than hotfile.
rlslog is corrupt…notice the increasing amount of ads and promotions of various companies.
I NEVER, NEVER download anything from RLSLog.
Far too many:-
Bogus files,
Viruses,
Spammers.
So it doesn’t matter which service they promote just use RLSLog for “info only”
You have been warned…
Peace
The Voice.
martin is a buttkid who copies news from out of his kidbutt, from sources that are buttkids. buttkid circle that is. eatbutt and die
@67
just use ad block plus to block all the pop ups
Out of all the free services I've used, hotfile is the worst. Pathetically slow speeds and the wait time is ridiculous as others have stated. Rlslog, stop promoting junk and post scene news. Thank you.
@ 69 ad block plus
I’m referring to the links “some people” post in comments.
Far too unreliable…
In essence, sites like Rapidshare and Hotfile make tons of money from illegal songs/software/games/movies. So this verdict makes perfect sense to me! Don't get me wrong, I don't like it, but it just makes sense! We ARE all stealing, and sites like RS, RLSlog and TPB are all enablers.
hotfile sux. go with rapidshare or megaupload, megashares, megaftp. letitbit ir something else.
So the time has come…. where we moving next ? IRC and Usergroup the way to go ?
Update: We initially reported that Rapidshare was fined $34 million on the back of this report. This information is wrong, the court only stated that the value of the tracks was estimated at $34 million. The article is updated accordingly and we’re sorry for the confusion.
@13, did TMZ also say that Rapidshare killed Michael Jackson?
1. Newsgroups
2. Bit Torrent
3. Emule
All others, especially the hosting sites, SUCK!
Go with NZB/Newsgroups folks, the oldest, fastest and safest ways to get stuff.
i am happy about this. maybe we will see less of the dam links here and more torrent links as what this site was originally made for. I really want to learn news groups but do not understand it . I do not understand why so many rapidshare , netload and other direct links here there should be a limit to them not 500 and only 1 comment.
yeah martin should really correct the article, makes him look like a dunce
Great! … now go on with Hotfile …
these judges in Hamburg are infamous for supporting the industry. in germany you can sue your foe anywhere you like so the industry almost anytimes does it in Hamburg. not only just that, they sue at many places at the same time, no matter how many cases are dumbed, if only one makes it, they win. they are just abusing the system.
and hotfile is hosted in germany too, so no improvement at all as anything hosted here falls under german laws and that favours the industry (thanks to bribed politicans, or call it "lobbyism" if you like). vote for the pirates if you want to change that!
I certainly do!
have you all gone stupid?
first off, this story is pretty old, been up on all the major sites for days. second, THERE IS NO FINE! one blog site misinterprets the google translation and you all run with it, even though it was corrected that day! if you want to post news here, at least do it in a timely fashion and steal the most up to date version.
@ 25 Ghandi hear! hear! jdownloader is brilliant and free
Rapidshare download manager
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W1I9Y23V
Virus check:
http://www.virustotal.com/pt/analisis/fc6acfaa9170e78dc1c5481d02721ee6ef6716c3a612be2fd750394fdefdc992-1246058231
lol @ 83 you are god damn right seriousley i check out Rlslog when i wanna read some News ( Again )
& for movies & Hot News ther is billion of websites faster than rlslog because they had an Army updating it's content not 2 or 3 ppl wasting our time putting ugly music posts and ploated softwares for losers whom waste their time using mac softcraps
HOTFILE IS CRAP it shouldn't even exist, they are just trying to cut into RS profit.
ok lets see,there are 3 movies on the cinema that i would like to see,each ticket 5€,plus i have to pay girlfriends ticket too,t=30€,new game is on the stores,the price is +/- 50€ (cod5 was on the first weeks),the new cd from eminem,wow!!!20€,and we are the pirates!!!talking about get the hand in mi pocket and clean me up!!!thats the only reason ppl go to ilegal download,u will say "we all know that" they will say "we dont give a f….,u want the fun?? pay it now!!!" i will continue downloading stuff,torrent,irc,filezila,http,anything goes,and wen this ones gones over there will be 10 more to is place,for god sakes even politics,judges,doctors,and police do ilegal download,oh and RS try an offshore,and #43 is rigth,its realy stupid puting the fille name in the link.
Martin… change news to the real story… the value of the songs were estimated to 24m eu… it's NOT a fine.
Isn't there a difference between rapidshare.de and rapidshare.com guys… I mean since this is germany and such it would be rapidshare.de thats in trouble, not .com
@steaMMachine
you should try downers, and punctuation.
Hello loser RLS log team. You do not even fail to understand any basic concepts you are also just copy&pasting other's work. I hope you are the next to get burned. Die in hell.
RS is stupid. They mail our your password with your reminder to renew! I had my account emptied of all points, the log showed the thief was from another country. The account was created with my points on the same day as my reminder email.. inside job or sniffer at work?
RS is quick. They restored the points and deleted the thief's account within half a day.
quit tryin to promote hotfile with bogus news about RS.
Rs still owns all. MU is next.
Whats gives with the great free program "Rapget".
I have used the GREAT program Rapget for over three years! There is no better for Rapidshare files. What gives with the owner. He is pissing a lot of people off.
I can't believe there are no programmers out there that can fix this problem.
Like I said, don't know what is wrong with the owner-maker of Rapget, but he could be making good money right about now. I would pay up to like $50 to have this working and keep working.
So mean while while he gets his act together, have to use "Internet Download Manager".. Its not to bad, good speeds… but it's not the very easy to use Rapget.
why do you guys not use http://www.gigasize.com/affiliates/?s=236&a=16 i have a 700kb/s upload speed there and as high as 2.7mb/s download with a premium account. i got this in my email "Gigasize offers a new competitive advantage for your shared files :
Privacy Protection by strong Encryption.
We optionally offers to download files using 256bits AES strong-encryption technology, without any log of the downloads, to guarantee perfect privacy against ISP or foreign agencies.
Don't hesitate to communicate about our security features when you put a link on a blog, web page or a forum: your links will be more valuable, and people won't hesitate to use them" plus you get points which you can trade in for extended service and MONEY. they really do pay out the money as i have received some from the points. i've had files online from there since 2006 and they are still active. they aren't that great for free users though… but better the hotfile.
This is the final straw for me. I have been using rlslog for a while now, and this delayed/incorrect news post is just ridiculous. Also pushing people to buy Hotfile accounts. Please.
Can somebody please recommend another Release/Scene/News site?
Also.. I have been using Rapidshare for a few years now, and I have no desire to use anything else. warez-bb.org FTW!
people will still upload, its just gonna end up with password protections.
rapidshare sucks, so hotfile too
Megaupload is far better
I love Rapidshare. I connect @ 24Mb and I get 24Mb speed from them. 1 Gig takes less than 7 mins and it is cheap considering that 1 movie costs that much to watch at the cinema for 3 months of Rapidshare.
i love RS… i can download 10 files at once and get over 4m on each ona 100mb line, ive used hotfile and other and there just very slow like 300k max download
lol, the news was inaccurate, staff replied so they know it's inaccurate, but the staff here still wouldn't fix the news
goodbye rlslog
rlslog just isn't what it used to be
Hotfile suks to the max…. terrible speeds. Megaupload and RS is much better.
hi roger
how are you.
What program do you guys like to use to download Rapidshare files?
I used to use "Rapget", but not working now.
Thanks.
Jim
Hurry and Nuke this for inaccuracy.
@Netranger17
I use http://www.openshares.info to process multiple rapidshare links. Works flawlessly
So…… this doesn't do much….RS will be fine.
GOOD! Im sick of seeing company's like rapidshare making money from pirated material. Its companies like this media agencies should go after, not the user like they do with p2p.
Great! Fuk rapidshare. The greatest uploaders use several sites like rapidshare, hotfile, megaupload, netload with interchangeable links so you can download multiple parts at the same time for FREEEEEEEEEEE! All other uploaders are lamers and can kiss my azz!
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