Cyberlockers are in a tricky situation. Since the copyright-dependent industries took down MegaUpload, few are taking any chances. Many have changed their service, limiting public sharing and taking other measures. RapidShare has once again taken the lead by issuing a "manifesto," which it believes other cyberlocker... |
20 April 2012
07:22 GMT |
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Last week, the German rights management group GEMA, trumpeted a major victory against RapidShare, claiming that a court decision ordered the site to monitor all uploads for copyright infringing content. That was before the court decision was made public in full.
Now that the entire document is here, surprising no on... |
28 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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You can't win if you fight them, you can't win if you join them, it seems, if you're a cyberlocker. MegaUpload was destroyed by the entertainment industry quite recently for its alleged illegal behavior. RapidShare on the other hand has been doing quite a lot to get the copyright corporations off its b... |
16 March 2012
06:38 GMT |
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MegaUpload's demise has been rather traumatic for the cyberlocker world. Some big sites simply shut down, other disabled third-party downloads, some removed their paid uploads program.
Now, it seems that RapidShare, one of the biggest cyberlocker sites and not exactly a favorite of the entertainment industry, ... |
24 February 2012
08:50 GMT |
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RapidShare is no different from other file sharing services that are currently threatened by all sorts of agreements and bills adopted all over the world. Because they couldn't just let Washington stomp on their business, they hired lobbyists to fight for their rights.
According to TorrentFreak, the PROTECT I... |
7 October 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Researchers from security vendor M86 Security have identified a serious cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RapidShare.com website which allowed attackers to potentially scam users.RapidShare is one of the largest file hosting providers on the Internet and with hundreds of millions of monthly visitors it ... |
21 February 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Google is facing strong criticism for removing search suggestions and instant results for terms like BitTorrent, uTorrent, RapidShare and others as part of its commitment to fighting piracy.At the beginning of December, the Web search giant revealed via its general counsel that it plans on making improvements to the ... |
27 January 2011
06:34 GMT |
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Google has started blocking certain 'piracy-related' terms from Google Instant and search suggestions. Anything including words like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare," "megaupload," or "utorrent" will lead to a blank page in Google Instant and no auto-completion suggestions. The move was actually previe... |
27 January 2011
04:32 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab warn of a click fraud trojan distributed via spam emails that advertise links to exe files hosted at RapidShare.The malware is a variant from the Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Drooptroop family and is in circulation since the beginning of of December. The spammed links are of the form h... |
27 December 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Security researchers from Belgian email security vendor MX Lab warn about a new wave of malicious emails that direct users to download scareware hosted at RapidShare.According to MX Lab, the emails are sent from randomly spoofed addresses and their message is brief. The body only contains a link of the form http://ra... |
14 December 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Last week, the TorrentFreak blog was warning users RapidShare was hunting and shutting down all users that broke the site's privacy policy and uploaded copyrighted content on their accounts. While the reports were false, we asked RapidShare's press department a couple of questions just before TorrentFreak i... |
30 March 2010
03:13 GMT |
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A court ruling has issued an injunction against file hosting service Rapidshare. The company will now have to filter all file uploads for 148 book titles, mainly academic belonging to six book publishers. Failure to comply with the court's decision will cost up to $339,000 in fines and even prison time for some ... |
26 February 2010
10:34 GMT |
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File-sharing site Rapidshare has been hit with a big fine of €24 million ($34 million) by the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, following a request by GEMA, a German copyright protection group acting on behalf of 65,000 composers and other music industry parties. The court also forbid the file-sharing site fro... |
24 June 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Rapidshare is one of the most useful Internet websites because it allows users to upload anything and share it with friends or anybody else. At this time, Rapidshare has a huge database of files as a considerable number of users connected to it to upload music, pictures, movies and even larger files such as games or ... |
3 June 2007
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