RapidShare forced to be more proactive to check for pirated upload of user

A high court in the Hamburg region, Germany is said to have requested the file sharing service RapidShare to be more proactive filter pirated content from its site. Rapidshare is considered not doing enough to prevent piracy that occurs in the data center by a number of areas of lower courts.
Last January, one of the largest file-sharing services in the world that MegaUpload is closed. RapidShare still survive as a business model is different from RapidShare MegaUpload, which offers financial rewards for popular file uploaders.According to initial reports written from a court decision which has not been released, the site should monitor the user's files are copyright violations before they are made available for download on the site.It seems almost impossible to do manually filter content, chances are RapidShare must develop a software-based solutions to filter content. Music and film industry has long wanted to policies such as pre-inspection become standard in the internet. The site provider is not the copyright owner, should be more accountable for pirated material. Currently, only the video-sharing sites like YouTube that gives copyright owners the tools to locate and notify the site that make infringing material.

Interestingly, the high court ruling from Hamburg was against the decision of the European Court last month ruled that the social network site Netlog does not have to proactively examine the contents as it would violate the privacy of its users.

Rapidshare itself to implement policies to limit the download speed to 30Kbps, forcing uploaders who wish to share files with users give for free download here. This site argues that most users are downloading or uploading pirated material chose not to pay and avoid the problems associated with illegal activities. It remains to be seen whether these measures will meet the demands of the music and film industry.