Comments on: RapidShare tracks worth $34 million

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:07:08 +0000

In others news, car manufacturers plan on taking Transport Canada to court for not being proactive in preventing stolen cars from driving on Canadian roads. They demand that officials implement some means of photographing the VIN numbers of each vehicle as it drives by, automatically shutting down any detected as having been purloined from their lots.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:15:53 +0000

In order to prevent near-certain takedowns, a lot of copyrighted files uploaded to Rapidshare have cryptic filenames and are password-protected. Is Rapidshare supposed to somehow know these files are infringing and filter them out also?

By: A_F

A_F — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:53:02 +0000

this deciding about the value is important sofar because in german civil law, the loser regularily has to pay the winners attorney costs. These lawyers cost are calculated based upon the value of the items at issue in a case. So by deciding that the value is 24 million, the lawyers for gema will write a bill based on that high number.