Posted on June 25, 2009 by by Valeri

The Regional Court of Hamburg “Germany” has ruled in favor of German collecting oranisation GEMA (collects fees from businesses who play copyright music and distributes them to record labels and  recording artists), which has sued file-hosting service rapidshare.com for $34 million dollars. GEMA claims Rapidshare makes around 5,000 music tracks available on the Internet illegally.

“The judgment states that the hosting service itself is now responsible for making sure that none of the music tracks concerned are distributed via its platform in the future. This means that the copyright holder is no longer required to perform the ongoing and complex checks,”

Mashable has a great report on it

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