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anon
24.06.09, 14:29
The Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet. The court estimated the value of the tracks at $34 million.

Court Orders Rapidshare To Proactively Filter Content | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-rapidshare-to-proactively-filter-content-090624/)

slikrapid
24.06.09, 23:54
the article was modified and the working link is:

Court Orders Rapidshare To Proactively Filter Content

http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-rapidshare-to-proactively-filter-content-090624/


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.

anon
24.06.09, 23:56
~ Fixed