http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-terminates-accounts-of-illegal-downloaders-100323/
�It came to our attention that illegal uploads which have violated third-party copyrights that can result in lawsuits are being hosted on our servers, thus voiding the Terms of Service. We have detected and removed these files from our servers, as requested by the legitimate owners, and are now in the process of terminating accounts that have downloaded or stored those copyrighted materials in order to prevent them from circulating and breaching copyrights again,� the email from Rapidshare reads.
Terminating accounts is not the end of it though, as Rapidshare informs the users in question that their personal details will be kept for legal purposes. �A log file of all your login IP addresses and uploaded/downloaded file details will be kept for legal purposes,� they write. Rapidshare advises users who want to appeal the decision to hire a lawyer.
It’s fabricated from phishing losers who can’t afford a premium account.
It’s fabricated from phishing losers who can’t afford a premium account.
QFT.
torrent freak or some other torrent site posted a fake article a few years ago regarding metallica taking a lawsuit on rs.
Amen
As much as people would like to pretend, (almost) nobody downloads Linux ISOs or xVids of copyright free amateur films.
If this were true, there’d be a helluva lot more background to it than some random, poorly written, threatening-sounding email that could’ve come from absolutely anywhere…
Just look at the backpedalling going on on that article on Torrentfreak…
Rapidshare are going to shut down all infringing users right now!
Edit: That was fake. But we still have information proving it will happen.
Edit: That was fake too. Somebody sent us absolute proof though!
Edit: No, that was a scam. Oh, fuck it – just trussssssssssssst us. As a torrent site, we’re not biased against web based hosting AT ALL!
[Edit: From Rapidshare’s own Privacy Policy…
Q. Will RapidShare communicate information about the files a customer has downloaded to third parties?
A. No. RapidShare does not store this information. Accordingly, we could not pass on this information, even if we wanted to. The prohibition of such logs is an inherent part of the contract for all our customers and we don’t handle this differently for those who use the Free hosting either.
If they’re going after anybody, it will be uploaders. It is physically impossible (unless their privacy policy is an outright lie, in which case, hello millions of lawsuits) to know who downloaded what. That is in direct contradition with the supposed email from Rapidshare that claims people who DOWNLOAD infringing content will be booted off the service too.
All crap, the whole lot of it.
Sleep easy, folks. 🙂
And… the thought occurs that all one would have to do as an upload is slap a password on the RAR. Then nobody will know the contents of your uploaded file – and therefore whether it infringes copyright or not – unless they crack the password… which is an infringement of YOUR right to privacy! 😉
I’ve heard they plan to do it. They remove files all the time. It doesn’t take much for a label to get anything removed from Megaupload.
I think a lot of this is due to the crackdowns in France, Sweden and, soon, Britain.
As much as people would like to pretend, (almost) nobody downloads Linux ISOs or xVids of copyright free amateur films.
If this were true, there’d be a helluva lot more background to it than some random, poorly written, threatening-sounding email that could’ve come from absolutely anywhere…
Just look at the backpedalling going on on that article on Torrentfreak…
Rapidshare are going to shut down all infringing users right now!
Edit: That was fake. But we still have information proving it will happen.
Edit: That was fake too. Somebody sent us absolute proof though!
Edit: No, that was a scam. Oh, fuck it – just trussssssssssssst us. As a torrent site, we’re not biased against web based hosting AT ALL!
[Edit: From Rapidshare’s own Privacy Policy…
Q. Will RapidShare communicate information about the files a customer has downloaded to third parties?
A. No. RapidShare does not store this information. Accordingly, we could not pass on this information, even if we wanted to. The prohibition of such logs is an inherent part of the contract for all our customers and we don’t handle this differently for those who use the Free hosting either.
If they’re going after anybody, it will be uploaders. It is physically impossible (unless their privacy policy is an outright lie, in which case, hello millions of lawsuits) to know who downloaded what. That is in direct contradition with the supposed email from Rapidshare that claims people who DOWNLOAD infringing content will be booted off the service too.
All crap, the whole lot of it.
Sleep easy, folks. 🙂
And… the thought occurs that all one would have to do as an upload is slap a password on the RAR. Then nobody will know the contents of your uploaded file – and therefore whether it infringes copyright or not – unless they crack the password… which is an infringement of YOUR right to privacy! 😉
Yes, true but there are countries passing laws that will make these services hand out information. Rapidshare pulls files all the time, so I have to wonder if this is somewhat true. They may not be handing out IP addresses upon request but I do believe they are removing copyrighted files.
If this went through, the fuck would *I* do?
Expiration date: Thu, 7. Oct 2010
Used storage: 124 284 MB
Free RapidPoints: 117611
Premium RapidPoints: 2632
A hell of a lot of effort down the toilet.
As legislation (and further rights erosion courtesy of the government) catches up it will become harder in the future, certainly… but for the moment I am not panicing.
If you upload a file to Rapidshare called DHKJDHKASJDHKAJHKA24284234234.rar and put a password on it… Nobody will know what’s inside, so nobody will report it, so it won’t get taken down. (Unless it’s an inside job – like we’ve seen here, disaffected forum members suddenly turning against the community and reporting any and all infringing links to RS… But there’s not much one can do about that.)
If this went through, the fuck would *I* do?
Expiration date: Thu, 7. Oct 2010
Used storage: 124 284 MB
Free RapidPoints: 117611
Premium RapidPoints: 2632
A hell of a lot of effort down the toilet.
Yep. That’s the way I feel. Even when I didn’t have an account, I didn’t HATE the service. What I hated was waiting fifteen minutes in between downloads, but it’s a minor inconvenience.
Patience is a virtue, people.
Patience is a virtue, people.
Why don�t you reset your router? It�s a easy way to avoid these 15 minutes.
The dumb thing is that almost no one names files random gibberish…and I wonder why.