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For many years Rapidshare was considered to be a safe way for people to download copyrighted content without having to face repercussions. Recently, however, the company has been actively going after users that upload or download copyrighted files through the service by terminating accounts and logging IP-addresses for legal purposes.
In common with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, Rapidshare has steadily increased its user base in recent years. The site has hundreds of millions of visitors each month and is listed among the 50 most-used sites on the Internet.
Like most file-hosting services, Rapidshare is hosting a wide range of music, movies and music files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders. This has dragged the company?s bosses into several lawsuits with copyright holders already, most recently they were ordered to proactively filter 148 book titles to avoid jail time and huge fines.
Although it is no secret that many people use Rapidshare to distribute copyrighted content, the site?s users have remained largely untouched until recently. Over the last few weeks, however, reports are coming in from users who?ve had their accounts terminated for downloading or uploading copyrighted files.
From the emails being sent out, it is clear that Rapidshare is taking a more aggressive stance towards ?infringing? users. Additional information from inside Rapidshare confirms that distributers of copyrighted material are indeed targeted more that before.
There is little doubt that this active termination policy is the result of ever-increasing pressure from copyright holders. At the same time, these actions might very well be the end of Rapidshare?s limitless expansion, as users will quickly move over to competing file-hosting services upon hearing this news.
For many years Rapidshare was considered to be a safe way for people to download copyrighted content without having to face repercussions. Recently, however, the company has been actively going after users that upload or download copyrighted files through the service by terminating accounts and logging IP-addresses for legal purposes.
In common with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, Rapidshare has steadily increased its user base in recent years. The site has hundreds of millions of visitors each month and is listed among the 50 most-used sites on the Internet.Like most file-hosting services, Rapidshare is hosting a wide range of music, movies and music files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders. This has dragged the company?s bosses into several lawsuits with copyright holders already, most recently they were ordered to proactively filter 148 book titles to avoid jail time and huge fines.
Although it is no secret that many people use Rapidshare to distribute copyrighted content, the site?s users have remained largely untouched until recently. Over the last few weeks, however, reports are coming in from users who?ve had their accounts terminated for downloading or uploading copyrighted files.
From the emails being sent out, it is clear that Rapidshare is taking a more aggressive stance towards ?infringing? users. Additional information from inside Rapidshare confirms that distributers of copyrighted material are indeed targeted more that before.
There is little doubt that this active termination policy is the result of ever-increasing pressure from copyright holders. At the same time, these actions might very well be the end of Rapidshare?s limitless expansion, as users will quickly move over to competing file-hosting services upon hearing this news.
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