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By: Zwartbaard » Blog Archive » Music Industry Got An Injunction Against Rapidshare in 2007, Site Not Shut Down

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:55:46 +0000

[...] the time, GEMA boss Dr. Harald Heker said: that the Court’s decision shows that it shouldn’t be down to the rights holders to police [...]

By: Music Industry Gets An Injunction Against Rapidshare « Kenny’s Entertainment Blog

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:00:43 +0000

[...] the time, GEMA boss Dr. Harald Heker said that the Court’s decision shows that it’s not down to the rights holders to police commercial [...]

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » Music Industry Got An Injunction Against Rapidshare in 2007, Site Not Shut Down

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:42:15 +0000

[...] the time, GEMA boss Dr. Harald Heker said: that the Court’s decision shows that it shouldn’t be down to the rights holders to police [...]

By: Music Industry Gets An Injunction Against Rapidshare | TorrentFreak

Music Industry Gets An Injunction Against Rapidshare | TorrentFreak — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:48:03 +0000

[...] the time, GEMA boss Dr. Harald Heker said: “The Court’s decision confirms that it cannot be the task of the rights owners to control at [...]

By: Para 19a of the German UrhG

Para 19a of the German UrhG — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:36:38 +0000

is clear insofar. It is illegal to upload copyrighted material for download. Rapidshare must not knowingly help. But copyright is not so much a monopoly of distribution in Germany. It is perfectly legal to share music beyond the music business, see para 53 UrhG. What Sony vs. Universal was in the US, were audio tape recorders in Germany a long time before. Para 53 UrHG says that library building is legal. Time-shifting, bah….

We can say, that the para 19a UrhG, the letter a tells us that it is a new law, is owed to international conventions. Insofar the case would not be different in the US or whereever. Protection of copyright must be effectiv.

But the exact content of international conventions is dark. Regulations like para 53 UrhG are recognised too! And it could be asked whether it make a difference, in the light of para 53 UrhG, that analog copies have gone digital today and sharing has become easier in times of the net.

And: we should not forget the real impact of rapidshare. Some hundret downloads for hits and much less for other stuff, until it gets expired.

So when the day is over, there is not much to care about, even in the light of international conventions. The German lawgiver of para 19a UrhG was to fast. Sort of war against terror, axis of evil etc aka much ado about nothing.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:12:55 +0000

Of course Rapidshare makes his business on the copyrighted material ! And it’s what makes it so famous and huge ! What are users go find on Rapidshare other than movies, albums or softwares that are just released on DVD or CD, and even before they are ? What I wonder is how could Rapidshare grow so much and how it can still be active ?

By: Tarantas

Tarantas — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:45:03 +0000

I can sure understand the gema politics’. But I don’t like it. Gema just want to close gaps of copyright violation. I’m sure that many people in the internet don’t want to pay anything for media, but there won’t be a way to write music or shoot blockbuster for free.

I say there will always be a way to get what you want!

By: Butty

Butty — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:37:42 +0000

I’m starting to get sick of this kind of news… well, next will see the banks sue the car and guns manufacturers because someone robed the bank using a gun and run away in a car made by that manufacturers.