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Rapidshare shares more than files in Germany
By Fabio on Monday April 27th 2009 04:45 | Category: Web
File Site Rapidshare shows data of alleged copyright violators to record companies have given. At one of the uploaders, the police made a raid to search for evidence.
The last Metallica album, Death Magnetic, was last year Rapidshare put, a day before the official came out. A few weeks ago, the police raided the uploader, but it was a mystery how his identity had become known. Ip addresses and other details of uploaders with Rapidshare not be seen.
Saturday is the German news Gullivers found that the record companies are a creative use of the German copyright law have made. Previously, this law only used the data behind an IP address to obtain if it was used for sharing files on filesharing networks. The court seems to now be able to find in the explanation that under the law the identity of uploaders to a site to be unveiled.
This development means that anyone with a file on a German site, we need to consider that his ip address and personal information to the copyright holders will be transferred believes TorrentFreak. Even uploading files to a torrent tracker would have led to, because this can be seen as contributing to copyright infringement.
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