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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Sites like RapidShare herald the fact they provide content removal tools to rights holders, however this seems to shift the responsibility of policing content on a site.
If there were 10,000 file lockers with 10,000 content removal tools then the onerous task of policing content would be unmanageable.
File Lockers must be held accountable for the content they host, not shift the responsibility to rights holders who's content is being stolen.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/...-sharing-sites
Rapidshare could very quickly minimise harm to rights holders by simply deleting content which is shared on warez and piracy forums. Remove the incentive to share illegal content. |
As if they need US gov to block those linking sites through htaccess.
Previosly they boasted that they developed some very advanced bot which is so intelligent it's next to AI, and that this bot is constantly searching for pirates and finds and blocks them all. Well, now that this super smart AI bot ovbiously failed, they're looking for help of the US gov to crack down on linking sites.
Meanwhile any person who isn't US gov and doesn't have ultrasmart AI bots can simply Google "rapidshare warez" and find dozens of sites with the absurd amount of rapidshare links pointing to illegal content. Why can't Rapidshare do they same, and block at least some the most obvious offenders such as warez-bb through htaccess? They also have their referrer stats so they probably wouldn't even need Google to find those warez sites, at least several dozens of the biggest offenders, and block them. And also remove all files that were linked from those sites, ban posters and remove everything else that they uploaded. That move alone would cut piracy at Rapidshare by at least half, and will send a strong signal to all illegal uploaders not to use Rapidshare anymore. It can be done easily, in about a week or less. No US gov help or AI bots necessary. Any person from their in-house staff can handle that. Why do we keep hearing "innovation in the cloud" nonsense instead of real action? Well isn't that obvious
Pirates and their shit talks are beyond ridiculous.