Rapidshare Shares Uploader Info with Rights Holders
Written by Ernesto on April 25, 2009



In Germany, the file-hosting service Rapidshare has handed over the personal details of alleged copyright infringers to several major record labels. The information is used to pursue legal action against the Rapidshare users and at least one alleged uploader saw his house raided.

Like many new releases, Metallica’s latest album “Death Magnetic” was uploaded to the popular file hosting service Rapidshare one day prior to its official release date last year. Since users don’t broadcast their IP-address or distribute files to the public directly though Rapidshare, it came as a surprise when the police raided the house of an uploader a few weeks ago.



At first it was unclear how the identity of the uploader was revealed, but today German news outlet Gulli said it had found out that this was likely to be accomplished by creative use of paragraph 101 of German copyright law. It turns out that several record labels are using this to take legal action against those who share music on Rapidshare.

Previously the paragraph was only used by rights holders to get the personal details of those who share copyrighted works on file-sharing networks. It basically enables the copyright holders to get “permission” from a civil judge to ask ISPs to disclose the personal details of a user behind a certain IP. Now, however, this also seems to be the case for file-hosting services such as Rapidshare, which is based in Germany.

This of course opens up the possibility for rights holders to go after a wide range of file-hosting services and potentially even BitTorrent sites. Indeed, everyone who now uploads a torrent file to a site hosted in Germany is at risk of having his personal details revealed. Although it will be impossible to prove that the uploader actually seeded the file it might be seen as assisting in copyright infringement.

Pretty much all torrent sites keep track of the IP-addresses of their (.torrent) uploaders, and if the rights holders can get the IP-address of people who upload to file-hosting services such as Rapidshare, they can easily extend this to BitTorrent sites hosted in Germany. A dream come true for copyright holders, but a nightmare for the privacy of Internet users.

Too bad for Metallica’s Lars Ulrich who only just started sharing files himself.


Izvor

Nisam mogao da iscitam celu temu, izvinjavam se ako negde pise:
Koristim SBB kablovski net, dobio sam neki modem Scientific Atlanta, i koristim JDownloader, kako da namestim da se rekonektuje, tj promeni IP, da ne cekam 15 minuta ili koliko vec, kad skidam sa rapida?....      Ako neko vec ima taj modem, ili zna kako... pomocu ip changera? Nisam to koristio nikad... 

To ce ti jako tesko funkcionisati. Dok na ADSL-u dobijes nov IP posle svakog recconect-a kod SBB-a skoro da i nema promene IP-a bez obzira koliko ti cesto resetovao modem.

U teoriji je i kod SBB-a dinamicka IP kao i na ADSL-u ali u praksi kod SBB-a imas negarantovano staticku IP adresu.

Posto su podigli dnevni limit na 5 giga i uz happy hours premium se ponovo isplati.

imao sam preko 250 upload-ovanih fajlova i sve mi je obrisano.da li neko zna zasto?

Hvala, ma i ovako JDownloader zavrsava posao...

  Isto pitanje,samo je Ikom u pitanju i modem Thomson?

Mozes dobiti drugi ip ako ako racunar i modem povezes na drugi nacin, sa lan kablom jedna ip a sa usb-om dobijas drugu ip. Barem je tako kod sbb-a. Ali neznam koliko je to isplativo raditi.

Hvala

Mozda nije za ovu temu moje pitanje a ja neznam gde da ga postavim pa cu ipak pitat,
zasto kada skinem neku pjesmu sa ovog sajta http://www.musicrailways.com/  (rapidshare,Free-User) nemogu da je pustim na winamp ili bilo gde,u cemu je problem jel moguce sta napravit da mogu preslusat to sto skinem

To nema veze sa RS-om, otvori novu temu na PC klinici.