Report – Rapidshare Gave Personal Information to Rights Holders to Assist Home Raid of Uploader Drew Wilson | April 30, 2009 For a while, Rapidshare was becoming an alternative to BitTorrent. The speeds were great because you are connected to a server and there’s plenty of content to get through different search engines throughout the web. For one user, who evidently uploaded Metallica’s Death Magnetic album days before it’s official street date release, it probably felt …
German Book Publishers Want to Add Rapidshare to ISP Blacklist Drew Wilson | April 26, 2009 Two days ago, we pointed to a story about the German government forcing ISPs to agree to a web filtering program in the country. There were fears that the filters would be used as a tool for censorship – it clearly didn’t take long for that to happen.
Rapidshare Loses in Court – Must Proactively Remove Copyrighted Content Drew Wilson | October 1, 2008 The long awaited court ruling has arrived and it may be very bad news for the ever-present content hosting website Rapidshare.
“Share Links” – P2P Revolution or Small Metamorphic P2P Evolution? Drew Wilson | September 30, 2008 There was an interesting posting by DCInteractive which discusses the movement on file-hosting and comparing it to popular file-sharing medium BitTorrent.
