RapidShare ordered to filter all user uploads

[tickler]

Maybe the beginning of the end. |bananna|

German music trade group GEMA has won a court judgment against one-click file-sharing service RapidShare, and the Hamburg Regional Court has confirmed that services like RapidShare must implement proactive content filtering to avoid liability.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/achtung-rapidshare-hit-with-24m-fine-content-filter-rules.ars

[nate]

Rapidshare should just ban all german IP addresses from all their servers and all the servers of other companies they or their parent companies control.