RapidShare Free File Hosting Service Been Handing Over User Info to Record Labels
There has been a lot of talk about Rapidshare, a free file-hosting service, in which has been handing over information about their users who might have been comitting copyright infringments to major record labels. According to TorrentFreak since the information has been leaked German authorities has raided the home of at least one uploader.
Among other albums, Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” was made available on Radipshare by an anonymous user on the day before its official release.
TorrentFreak cited the German local Gulli, which reported that copyright holders there are citing the law they have used to compel ISPs to disclose the identities of suspected file-swappers, to get Rapidshare to disclose information on its users.
TorrentFreak posited that this strategy could potentially be duplicated to go after other free file-hosting services, such as MegaUpload, and even BiTorrent sites.
Copyright holders have already sued Rapidshare, and a German court ruled in October that the company must work proactively to remove copyrighted material uploaded to its servers.
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