Let us remember that Megaupload is not alone in the world of pirate hunting within the digital age. Rapidshare has similarly come under fire from a number of major record labels for allowing illegal content to be hosted. Guess who? That's right, Metallica's Death Magnetic record was leaked on Rapidshare for whatever reason, causing the metal monolith to become involved in shaping yet another business' policies (or so they thought). While Rapidshare was forced to give away the details of those that leaked the files, they publicly vowed to never again spy on their users the next year, shiesty rhetoric at best, I say.
Whether or not Rapidshare has stuck to their statement is beyond the scope of you or myself; however you may be interested to know that in the very same year (2009-2010) Atari's case against Rapidshare was found to be unjust as an appeal from Rapidshare lead to the Dusseldorf higher court acquitting them of all charges. To elaborate, Rapidshare was unknowingly distributing the then newly released game "Alone In The Dark" on their servers. Atari suited a case against the company, imploring that the company must be held accountable and therefore screen to remove such illegal uploads. However, the counterargument won out as the appeal that such removal would strip away a great deal of legally distributed or backed up material that paying users benefit from. Indeed this is the polar opposite of Megaupload's case, in which the government sided with the hosting service: way to go Germany!
Don't shoot the messaged sheesh. The government is so quick to say hey your responsible when something isn't going as plan. All rapidshare is a platform that was mis used just like everything else in the world. I cant believe Rapidshare broke and told some ones info. Was there ever a private policy statement involved?... and would the illegal uploader have a case against rapidshare for sharing their info.
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