Rapidshare deletions

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drolli
Good Poster
Added: Oct 29, 2008 10:59 am
The latest suit had actually nothing to do with GEMA (as has been mis-reported), but was brought on by IBM.

Here is the ruling (in German):

http://webhosting-und-recht.de/urteile/Oberlandesgericht-Hamburg-20080702.html

It sheds some light on a few things... especially, what the complaints were, what measures Rapidshare had been taking, and what further measures the court would consider to be "reasonable".

It should be an interesting read as the news reports don't tell much. Of course, you'd have to understand German, and German legal-speak in particular. If someone would summarize the key points, that would be something, but I haven't found anything on the web as of yet.
wytsy
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Added: Oct 30, 2008 7:55 pm
RabidSquirrel wrote:

So in the case of my deletions, I think it's like you said: I uploaded files with the same MD5 hash as others that were deleted and that's why they were so rapidly deleted.


I don't think it works that way.
When a file gets flagged, you can't re-up a copy of it.
But before it gets flagged you can "pre-up" a copy.
When the normal upload is flagged, the pre-up stays very much alive.

Maybe I know how they did it, but I'd better not discuss that in public.
It might give them ideas.
If you like I can PM you.
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