RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine

[snowmanrene]

Yeah seems the guys here are dumber than I give them credit for.
Only thing I can come up with is because RS stopped their rewards programs and uploaders can't earn anymore, they hate it and complain about it over and over.

If RS was fined back when their rewards program was still active, most people who replied would of said something along the lines of "that sucks".

And yeah iMage, it does set a precedent, because very soon Hotfile and Fileserve, all those other filehosts that everybody seems to be praising for being the "best" will soon have these types of lawsuits to handle and then when they start taking measures like RS, they will be hated too. Guess that's just the way things move on. Sucks for RS though.

snowmanrene Reviewed by snowmanrene on 2nd Dec 2010. RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine Earlier this year, cyberlocker service RapidShare was ordered by a court to remove nearly 150 electronic books from its archives and prevent users from re-uploading them by implementing a filter. According to the publishers who brought the case, RapidShare quickly breached the injunction. Today, the Regional Court of Hamburg agreed and hit the file-hosting company with a 150,000 euro fine. Full Story Rating: 5

[deep.j1]

Rapidshare has been dying since they removed the rewards system. Since then people have started using them less. All these monitoring requirements are doing is killing Rapidshare faster.

[Cooper]

RS have headed to the doom for a while now.
Unless they dont do something asap they will be screwed.
I really like it but well time to move on

[Myth?]

Wow lol I'm not really sorry for them.