Administrators Do Better Posted April 27, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted April 27, 2021 In 2021 a European Citizens' Initiative "Freedom to Share" started collecting signatures in order to get the European Commission to discuss (and eventually make rules) on this subject, which is controversial. Link to the original source is here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Do Better Posted April 27, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted April 27, 2021 File hosting services may be used as a means to distribute or share files without consent of the copyright owner. In such cases one individual uploads a file to a file hosting service, which others can then download. Legal assessments can be very diverse. 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". But in the legal case Atari Europe S.A.S.U. v. Rapidshare AG in Germany, 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 use cases" and that to assume otherwise was equivalent to inviting "a general suspicion against shared hosting services and their users which is not justified". The court also observed that the site removes copyrighted material when asked, does not provide search facilities for illegal material, noted previous cases siding with RapidShare, and after analysis the court concluded that the plaintiff's proposals for more strictly preventing sharing of copyrighted material – submitted as examples of anti-piracy measures RapidShare might have adopted – were found to be "unreasonable or pointless". Link to the original source is here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Do Better Posted April 27, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted April 27, 2021 By contrast in January 2012 the United States Department of Justice seized and shut down the file hosting site Megaupload.com and commenced criminal cases against its owners and others. Their indictment concluded that Megaupload differed from other online file storage businesses, suggesting a number of design features of its operating model as being evidence showing a criminal intent and venture. Examples cited included reliance upon advertising revenue and other activities showing the business was funded by (and heavily promoted) downloads and not storage, defendants' communications helping users who sought infringing material, and defendants' communications discussing their own evasion and infringement issues. As of 2014 the case has not yet been heard. In 2016 the file hosting site Putlocker has been noted by the Motion Picture Association of America for being a major piracy threat, and in 2012 Alfred Perry of Paramount Pictures listed Putlocker as one of the "top 5 rogue cyberlocker services", alongside Wupload, FileServe, Depositfiles, and MediaFire. Link to the original source is here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Anjinsan Posted May 16, 2021 Members Share Posted May 16, 2021 Was using napster and kazaa way back during the dial up days. Bandwidth well spent on songs but mostly on "visual aids". Files took hours and even days to download. Malas mo na lang if somebody decided to stop sharing a file you're downloading after waiting for quite some time for it to finish. I was more worried of this over the viruses that you occasionally get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members benedick Posted March 14, 2022 Members Share Posted March 14, 2022 am using the latest one MEDIAGET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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