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simonn
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http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-fined-34-million-and-ordered-to-filter-content-090624/

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"Collections society GEMA claims to represent more than 60,000 composers, authors and music publishers worldwide, protecting their copyrights. After a request by the group, The Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled that hosting service Rapidshare is forbidden from making any of 5,000 music tracks from GEMA’s collection available on the Internet.

Rapidshare was also ordered to delete any and all of those same tracks from its servers and ensure that they are not uploaded again by users. Previously Rapidshare had been using file hashes to recognize tracks that were already removed after requests from GEMA, to ensure that they weren’t uploaded again. The court decided that the technique used was ineffective.

The court found Rapidshare guilty of breaches of copyright law and ordered it to pay damages of €24 million ($34 million).

“The decision of the Hamburg Regional Court is a milestone in GEMA’s fight against the illegal use of musical works on the Internet,” said Dr. Harald Heker, Chief Executive Officer of GEMA. “We are confident that in this way we will be able to reduce the illegal use of the GEMA repertoire on the Internet to a negligible level,” he added.

Understandably, Rapidshare sought to downplay the ruling. Bobby Chang, COO of RapidShare, Switzerland, said: “We do not consider the court’s decision to be a breakthrough. As other proceedings in similar disputes with GEMA have shown, there is considerable disparity amongst the individual courts in some cases.”

Noting that the courts of appeal “tend to restrict the scope of the decisions made by the lower courts,” Chang said it would make more sense to offer music fans the right products and services at the right price to “open up a new source of income for music-markets on the Internet.”"


i'll be posting the most interesting article on the front page of digg every hour from now on.

6/24/2009 1:03:45 PM

BubbleBobble
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shit!

6/24/2009 1:04:14 PM

dweedle
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it bugs me when i see M used for million, because M is 1000

but K is also 1000

so i have to wait till a see a word "thousand" or "million" to know which one they are talking about


but for some reason, MM, although it means 2000, also looks like M x M, or 1000 x 1000, being 1 million

6/24/2009 1:06:41 PM

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"it bugs me when i see M used for million, because M is 1000"


you knew what it meant

everyone knows what 34M means

6/24/2009 1:07:38 PM

schwank
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^lol - i thought that was a hooksaw comment

6/24/2009 1:07:57 PM

FroshKiller
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M doesn't mean "million" unless your name is fucking Gnaius Fulminus Mero.

6/24/2009 1:09:07 PM

BubbleBobble
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it doesn't matter what it fucking means, you knew what it meant and you just want to piss blood out of your pussy ITT

6/24/2009 1:09:56 PM

simonn
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i'm not sure what youz guyz are throwing a fuss about, but M is the designation for mega which is 10^6. would you prefer i typed out "million"?

6/24/2009 1:26:00 PM

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^u think you're gonna be me to 20000 posts?

can't wait to see your bitch ass crying when u get taken out

6/24/2009 1:28:51 PM

LRlilDaddy
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im gonna beat all your bitches to 20MM

6/24/2009 1:30:27 PM

Fermat
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your

6/24/2009 1:38:26 PM

EUSWALO
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"everyone knows what 34M means"

the first 2 parts of a/s/l

6/24/2009 5:08:33 PM

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Quote :
"it bugs me when i see M used for million, because M is 1000

but K is also 1000

so i have to wait till a see a word "thousand" or "million" to know which one they are talking about


but for some reason, MM, although it means 2000, also looks like M x M, or 1000 x 1000, being 1 million"


oh my...

6/24/2009 5:20:11 PM

BJCaudill21
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people use G for thousands too. like i got $.3 G's in the bank

6/24/2009 5:28:54 PM

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"t bugs me when i see M used for million, because M is 1000"


M is 1000? WTF?

Are you talking about Roman numerals? Wow.

6/24/2009 8:43:45 PM

dweedle
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very good

6/24/2009 8:45:06 PM

abbradsh
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damn is it that hard

g=grand
m=million
b=billion
t=trillion

get over it

6/24/2009 8:45:41 PM

dweedle
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i posted about it once 7½ hours ago

you get over it

6/24/2009 8:46:51 PM

nothing22
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they can beat this if they just change their address to hxxp

6/24/2009 9:22:39 PM

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"With Internet Explorer (including version 7), replacing the X's after pasting into the address bar is not necessary, as it will correct the URL automatically."

6/24/2009 9:29:00 PM

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