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RapidShare was founded by Christian Schmid in Mulheim, Germany, initially as ezShare later Rapid Share, a file hosting service for his RapidForum web forum hosting services. [2] In 2004, he started the company RapidShare AG, which went online in August 2004 [3] then moved its premises to Baar, Switzerland in 2006. [4]
But in the legal case Atari Europe S.A.S.U. v. Rapidshare AG in Germany (Legal case: OLG Düsseldorf, Judgement of 22 March 2010, Az I-20 U 166/09 dated 22 March 2010) the Düsseldorf higher regional court examined claims related to alleged infringing activity and reached the conclusion on appeal that "most people utilize RapidShare for legal ...
May 27 – RapidShare one-click hosting service was founded by Christian Schmid. June – Audiogalaxy settles RIAA suit for undisclosed amount, its file sharing becomes limited. June – First release of Shareaza by Michael Stokes. June – Applejuice released. July – Overnet introduced by the creators of eDonkey2000 implementing the Kademlia ...
For example, in the case of Swiss–German file hosting service RapidShare, in 2010 the US government's congressional international anti-piracy caucus declared the site a "notorious illegal site", claiming that the site was "overwhelmingly used for the global exchange of illegal movies, music and other copyrighted works". [12]
RapidShare not having a site search was agreed by the court as evidence of responsible activity given that some infringing content might exist and be searched for if one existed. [33] In the case of Isohunt, the presence of a search feature was interpreted as evidence of inducement. [34]
This is a comparison of notable file hosting services that are currently active.File hosting services are a particular kind of online file storage; however, various products that are designed for online file storage may not have features or characteristics that others designed for sharing files have.
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CryptLoad is a discontinued freeware download manager for Microsoft Windows that downloads files from file-hosting websites such as RapidShare and Megaupload. Its primary function is to automate the process of receiving, joining and extracting multi-part downloads. Version 1.1.8.0 of 2 September 2009 was current as of April 2011. Version 1.1.8 ...