Rapidshare Ordered To Filter Content

A Cow writes "TorrentFreak reports that the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet." Reader biabia brings an update to a related case in Italy involving four Google executives. The issue in that situation revolves around Google's response time in taking down a video that was deemed to be a privacy violation. Google is worried that a verdict against them could lead to mandatory pre-screening of all public videos that are uploaded onto their websites. Those proceedings have now been postponed until late September.
Update: 6/24 at 17:45 GMT by SS: The article originally reported that Rapidshare was fined $34 million. No such fine has been imposed — $34 million was the estimated value of the tracks hosted on Rapidshare.

Re:of course

[Kushieda Minorin]

Not to worry, they have the $34 million premium account.

Re:Surprised

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

What begins with a 'U'? Is it fun? Is it like fishing? Last time I went fishing I was able to get a lot of stuff because I used a net.

Re:Surprised

[monkeyboythom]

You mean there's more than porn on RS?

Small potatoes

[K. S. Kyosuke]

"No such fine has been imposed â" $34 million was the estimated value of the tracks hosted on Rapidshare."

Amazing, this figure means that there are only at most about four hundred illegally uploaded American tracks [slashdot.org]. That's not even noteworthy. ;-) *hides*

Re:Surprised

[smitty97]

First rule of using a net: You don't talk about using a net

Re:Surprised

[Anonymous Coward]

*looks at username*
*looks at post*

Bwhahahaha!

34Million?

[Dan541]

$34,000,000 worth of tracks is less than 50 songs.

Re:Surprised

[Cross-Threaded]

I want to know why it's not being modded as trolling...