Ordinary row <a href=http:/flyhost.net/>hosting </a>amenities Rapidshare ( www.rapidshare.com ) has been slapped with a $33.4 million fine not later than a German court and ordered to espouse stricter regulations for its uploaded content, according to a variety of reports.
The lawsuit was brought nearby German royalties collector GEMA, who called on the Regional Court in Hamburg to uniformity the file hosting service to stop it from hosting 5,000 music tracks on its locale for download.
GEMA released a announcement in German addressing the court's ruling:
"The judgment states that the hosting service itself is in this day responsible instead of making persuaded that nil of the music tracks anxious are distributed via its programme in the future. This means that the copyright holder is no longer required to act the ongoing and complex checks."
The court concluded that Rapidshare and other be like row sharing sites had not charmed the proper measures to impede copyright violation from occurring via the service