RapidShare Launches Mobile App for iPhone
New RapidShare app for iPhone lets you share, upload, or stream content on the go.
File-hosting site RapidShare is expanding its reach to the mobile phone market with the launch ...
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5 Best Alternatives to Megauplaod
List of several alternatives to the recently shuttered file-hosting site Megaupload.
Yesterday file-hosting site Megaupload was shuttered by US authorities, and the move left many scrambling for alternatives. The list ...
Perfect 10 Files $5 Million Infringement Suit Against Megaupload
Says it sent the cyberlocker 22 takedown notices that "as far as Perfect 10 can determine" most "have not been removed." Megaupload's Bonnie Lam counters that every single one it's ...
Google Begins Filtering Cyberlocker, BitTorrent Search Results
Follows through on promise it made last month "prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete."
It seems Google is making good on the promise it made ...
Megaupload to Copyright Critics: If We’re “Rogue” So is Google
Says that Google is "probably hosts the world's largest index of pirated content" and yet the site is "non-rogue," and that we don't blame Microsoft because people use its OS ...
RapidShare: “Rogue Site” Claim “Absurd, Libelous”
Responds to recent US Chamber of Commerce-funded "report" claiming it receives billions of hits per year, and that this alone is enough to suggest that it is "profiting ...
Atari Loses Infringement Case Against RapidShare
Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf said that RapidShare does remove copyrighted material when asked by copyright holders as required by law, and that Atari's demands that it filter ...
Rapidshare Hires Lobbyists to Convince Congress It’s Legit
Swiss-based cyberlocker says it's going on the offensive before next's year list of the world's "Most Notorious" sites is compiled. Also likely wants to weigh in on the proposed Combating ...
German Court: Rapidshare Does Not Have to Filter Content
Scores another victory against copyright holders trying to hold the site liable for illegal file-sharing.
Cyberlocker RapidShare AG has won its appeal of a copyright infringement case brought against it ...
Feds Seize 7 Linking Websites, 1 Cyberlocker for Infringement
Accuse TVSHACK.NET, MOVIES-LINKS.TV, FILESPUMP.COM, NOW-MOVIES.COM, PLANETMOVIEZ.COM, and THEPIRATECITY.OR of providing links to other sites where copyrighted material can be found, and accuses another, ZML.com, of being a Cyberlocker where illegal ...
Paramount Exec: Cyberlockers Real Threat, Not P2P
Paramount Pictures COO Frederick Huntsberry says that "cyberlockers now represent the preferred method by which consumers are enjoying pirated content," and that disconnecting file-sharers vis a vis a ...
Rapidshare: “Outrageous” to be Included on “Piracy watch List”
File-hosting site critical of inclusion in Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus' list of the world’s top 6 most “notorious” illegal websites, especially after a US judge recently cleared the site of ...
Rapidshare Beats Perfect 10, for Now, in US Court
Rules that as a file-hosting company it cannot be accused of copyright infringement. Comes on the heels of its recent victory in a German courtroom which ruled in a similar ...
German Appeals Court: Rapidshare Not Liable for User Uploads
Wins appeal of earlier court decision that had ordered the file-hosting site to prevent users from uploading copyrighted material, ruling that the links aren't public, and that it's users who ...
Music Industry Study Claims Warning Letters Decrease Filesharing
There's a German study that was released that suggests that file-sharing is dropping thanks to the warning letters being sent to users.
A study by the music industry claims ...
Rapidshare to Cooperate with Entertainment Industry, Sell Content
Vows aggressive account termination of accused illegal uploaders as well as a proposal to redirect visitors to pages formerly hosting copyrighted material to online destinations where it ...
Android Phones and Downloading On the Go
After a somewhat rocky start, the Android platform from Google is beginning to pick up steam, and with the new Motorola Droid model from Verizon, and with multiple new ...
German Lawyer Speaks About Risks of Using One-Click File Hosters
At the end of last month, we highlighted a very interesting case where Rapidshare sent personal information to rights holders of an uploader who leaked the latest Metallica ...
Report – Rapidshare Gave Personal Information to Rights Holders to Assist Home Raid of Uploader
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 ...
German Book Publishers Want to Add Rapidshare to ISP Blacklist
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 ...
