Rapidshare fined €24m for hosting illegal songs
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Rastalovich
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It's a hefty fine - but, as much as I disagree with anything being filtered, legit files or not, Rapidshare are very comercial, charge sums of cash for hosting on many scales, and have a wealth of advertizing. I'm sure their revenue was brought to bear when the fine was considered.
It's not the same, but would be almost like ur ISP allowing users to host mp3s on their own space. (which used to happen)
They know the legalities, and although there are ways around the filtering, for the majority of public use it is in-place and "fairly" vigorous.
Rapidshare, being as large an institution as they are, should be more aware of content issues. Lesson learnt perhaps.
It's not the same, but would be almost like ur ISP allowing users to host mp3s on their own space. (which used to happen)
They know the legalities, and although there are ways around the filtering, for the majority of public use it is in-place and "fairly" vigorous.
Rapidshare, being as large an institution as they are, should be more aware of content issues. Lesson learnt perhaps.
rapidman17
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Yh but its almost impossible for rapidshare to filter illegal files....most people rename them with codes and letters meaining the contents of the file is more or less unknown....
Rastalovich
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Yeah there are ways around detection, but I think they're being instructed to atleast take more aggressive steps than they are at present.
For example, there are many hosts that have filters that will look within files and archives and validate the contents. The majority of archives will show file listings without any password requirement.
They're definitely not going to be able to blanket filter everything out, that would be near impossible. But eliminate the casual uploads and be clever concerning some of the avoidance techniques.
For example, there are many hosts that have filters that will look within files and archives and validate the contents. The majority of archives will show file listings without any password requirement.
They're definitely not going to be able to blanket filter everything out, that would be near impossible. But eliminate the casual uploads and be clever concerning some of the avoidance techniques.
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