bb rapidshare

by srph • 10 Oct 2008, 08:27 • Journals
http://www.webhosting-und-recht.de/urteile/Oberlandesgericht-Hamburg-20080702.html (GER)
to sum it up, the court of hamburg has found rapidshare being guilty as, according to their decision, they supported piracy.
every person has the right to sue rapidshare for damages, so go and grab your money NOW! =D
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 09:29
Is the decission final? Because I still got a 2month Premium-account :o)
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srph 10 Oct 2008, 09:35
not yet, they still have one last chance if they manage to delete illegal content as soon as people upload them. which means they have to invest a lot of money so probably they will go bankrupt :PPP and if ordinary people start to challenge them @ the court... :P they surely will... :D
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 09:37
They can simply move their servers to another country were they aren't obliged to German jurisdiction, right? Or move their headquarters to another country.

I really doubt Rapidshare will dissapear. They are too big and too rich for that.
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TheDuck 10 Oct 2008, 09:41
It's a little bit too late for moving the servers as they've been already caught - it won't help nothing.
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srph 10 Oct 2008, 09:43
well, thepiratebay managed to do it still ;p
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 09:45
They never got sentenced by the Swedish courts afaik.
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 09:43
Rapidshare won't die :<
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TheDuck 10 Oct 2008, 09:53
Oh I'm sure it won't but they may pay a lot first.
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srph 10 Oct 2008, 09:42
yeh that would be one possible option to continue.
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dale 10 Oct 2008, 11:53
isnt rapidshare already located in switzerland? :d
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 14:09
I think the company still is German.
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Ati_ 10 Oct 2008, 09:31
YARRRRRRRRRR
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xedos 10 Oct 2008, 09:47
fucking German courts sticking their noses in to everything, next thing they'll be trying to ban online gaming globally...
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rAzbo 10 Oct 2008, 10:20
NEXT THING THEY WILL BE TRYING TO KILL ALL THE JEWS AGAIN?!
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HellHammer 10 Oct 2008, 10:10
YAR THEY BE HUNTING US
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aSmOgAn 10 Oct 2008, 10:28
that sux :/
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AdNoh 10 Oct 2008, 12:19
this only affects rapidshare.de i hope , not the rapidshare.com ?
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fAbulous 10 Oct 2008, 12:35
it only affects rapidshare.de since the rapidshare.com servers are hosted in switzerland
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 14:10
Same company, which is located/registered in Germany.
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quasimoto 10 Oct 2008, 14:25
no, 2 different.
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 14:32
Rapidshare.de and .com have different names buth are in their core the same company.
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DiniMere 10 Oct 2008, 15:48
rapidshare.com is not affected by german law.
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 16:35
I sincerly hope so, but rapidshare.com and .de both belong to the RS-group and the text in the journaltopic isn't talking about solely about .de.
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DiniMere 10 Oct 2008, 16:48
there is no RS-group. They are two different companies.
rapidshare.de => RapidTec
rapidshare.com => rapidshare corporation. registered in the swiss comercial register.
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 16:54
"sure"
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DiniMere 10 Oct 2008, 17:05
How is this hard to understand? Your company is registered in country X so the law of country x applies. sure
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Rhand 10 Oct 2008, 17:50
Every site which is reporting about this case is talking about RS.com so appearantly there is something which ties RS.com to Germany.
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DiniMere 10 Oct 2008, 18:16
you're right. just read that they have a plant in germany. oh well, i guess worst case scenario would be that rapidshare.com will be disallowed in germany. wouldnt' really care :p
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AnnieMac 10 Oct 2008, 13:44
actually im always downloading at rapidshare.com anyway, and i think most do so, so wont be any problem if this decision is going to be a final one
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txcxL 10 Oct 2008, 13:53
"so go and grab your money NOW"

how? :<
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pala 10 Oct 2008, 14:57
AWWWWW finally we will get rid of those rapidshare freaks
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Cachucha 10 Oct 2008, 21:23
ooh I still 1 month of premium, but if rs is out could be bad for the other services, maybe they will increase their prices /:

sticking to my megashares account anyways XD
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