RIAA Will Soon Take Over The Internet, Suing Rapidshare
Looks like the RIAA is just getting started. After arresting some DJ’s, the Germany section of the RIAA is suing the very popular site, Rapidshare. If Rapidshare loses this battle all the major sites will be going down. Here is a clip from the story:
Harald Heker, the chairman of the executive board of GEMA, believes the court’s decisions will have repercussions on the way “Web 2.0 services” such as YouTube and MySpace will be treated in future. What the decisions according to Mr. Heker show is that “the mere circumstance of shifting acts of use to users and the purported inability of the operator to control content do not relieve the operator of a service from the copyright liability he/she/it possesses for the content made available for download from the operator’s website(s).”
 |
