RapidShare must remove infringing content proactively
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 30 September 2008
After getting sued by a German copyright holder, the company argued that it was doing all it could to screen out copyrighted material.
Simply twiddling a few bits could defeat the hash-based screening, the court ruled, and the six employees were insufficient to proactively examine everything posted to the company's servers before it was made available for download.
Now just give the judges a file named Hhe122v4.part1.rar which is password protected and has an unlisted checksum. Then ask them how to figure out if there was any copyrighted material inside. Of course the employees could try to check the referer URL, but there are too many ways around.