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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
This was a German ruling based on European law. DMCA is American.
Here is a description of those frivolous requests:
http://torrentfreak.com/google-start...quests-121213/
It sound to me like the requests are mistakes, not deliberate. Given the enormous volume of takedown requests, some of it must be automated, and so could be the result of a software bug.
By contrast, I think the people who are illegally uploading and downloading copyrighted materials are more likely to be doing so deliberately. So why not prosecute them first?
Do I mean that seriously? No. But just like I don't want to ruin the lives of college student downloaders, I don't want to ruin the lives of people working at Warner Brothers or Penguin Random House. This should be a civil matter. |
Not only civil, but more cut and dried.
Does anyone really know how easy or difficult it is to police a large online storage website. Are their studies done?
Perhaps a website should be set up or better yet, a consortium of the companies involved should take over policing rapidshare. See how well they do at the policing end. For all I know it may be easy, but I doubt the fine line between keeping your customers and satisfying the demands being made would even be possible without spending more than you make.
As one example if a site is hosted in a country where file sharing is not illegal and the file sharer are using a connection in a country that is not illegal, how can you really tell. Lots of ways to hide your IP.
Not saying people should fileshare illegally, just that the current ways of dealing with it seem to be bullying and saying my lawyers are better than yours and I can afford a hell of a lot more of them.
Let the rights holders put their money where their mouth is and come up with a foolproof and inexpensive way of policing online content or do the actual policing themselves and be prepared to pay damages if they do it incorrectly.
Helen