Thread: Is Rapidshare a promoter of e-book piracy?
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Old 10-12-2009, 11:30 AM   #139
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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon View Post
Huh?

It's quite clear! I've said this several times now: RS use a hash filter which disallows the re-posting of files taken down for copyright violations. The judge's order is to preemptively add a bunch of signatures to said filter.
That would be easily circumvented. Most files on rapidshare are in a zip or rar archive. Repack the archive and it now has a new hash. Also, it would arguably remove their safe harbor status, since a selection would be made by the service provider (in this case rapid share) of what is or is not allowed. In order for safe harbor to happen, it has to be fully automatic on the part of the service provider. Maintaining a hash blacklist would not be fully automatic, only using it would be.

(BTW, fixed spelling error)
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