Storage providers must check customers’ files for pirate content ...
Storage providers must check customers’ files for pirate content after alerted by a content owner, the Higher District Court in Cologne, Germany, ruled Friday. The Collecting Right Society got a preliminary injunction against Swiss-German content host RapidShare from a…
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lower court. RapidShare said it had no control over the content and didn’t know what kind of content was stored. Customers use external sites, or “link resources,” to publish titles and links to stored content. The appeals court changed the injunction by strictly limiting RapidShare’s duty to check on external links that would lead to pirated content and to take down content on notification if links can be found on rapidshared.com/link.io. “We do not have to check for these links throughout the whole Internet,” said a spokesperson for RapidShare. The company welcomed the decision. “Hosters need clear-cut rules about what they have to check, otherwise there will be no more companies who will invest in infrastructure and innovative services for a broad audience,” it said.