Court Orders Rapidshare To Proactively Filter Content
Found on TorrentFreak on Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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 decision of the Hamburg Regional Court is a milestone in GEMA's fight against the illegal use of musical works on the Internet," said Dr. Harald Heker, Chief Executive Officer of GEMA.
I laughed when I read this. Harald Heker will have a great day when he realizes that many albums are uploaded in encrypted, randomly named archives. Even if they spot one of those, a different passwords makes the hash useless. They may call this a victory, but it just shows how hard they fail at the basics. And no Mr Heker, I don't download your music. Those mainstream "creative works" aren't even worth the download.