“The GEMA (Germany’s RIAA) obtained a temporary injunction against ‘one-click-hoster’ Rapidshare.com. If their lawsuit is successful, the GEMA intends to use it as a beachhead against their next targets, including Youtube and MySpace. From the article: ‘According to GEMA, the service … has at times boasted of making some 15 million files available to its users. The operator had however failed to obtain from GEMA a license for making copyright protected files available … Through its injunctions the District Court in Cologne had now made it clear to the company that the fact that it was the users and not the operator of the services that uploaded the content onto the sites did not, from a legal point of view, lessen the operator’s liability for copyright infringements that occurred within the context of the services, the spokesman added.’”

 

19 January 2008

Rapidshare.com, As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT.

Rapidshare.com, As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT.

 

As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare’s servers appear to not be responding, this is from two causes:

 

1. The DNS servers are not responding so web browsers don’t know what address to try to connect to.

2. The servers 195.122.131.2 - 195.122.131.15 and 195.122.131.250 are not responding on port 80; however 80.239.151.250 is responding on port 80.

* This could be caused by a down link on the path to that address space.

 

The response from rapidshare’s DNS servers before the incident is listed below:

 

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.250

rapidshare.com has address 80.239.151.250

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.2

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.3

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.4

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.5

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.6

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.7

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.8

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.9

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.10

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.11

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.12

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.13

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.14

rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.15

 

There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. The downtime is said to be caused by a server overload (a result of too many downloads, and thus, increasing bandwidth). Rapidshare have yet to comment on this issue.

 

http://www.music-download.cc/index.php/2008/01/19/rapidsharecom-shut-down-by-anti-piracy-germany/

Shit...

 

Looks like .de is still working

No rapidshare?

 

Ah fucking hell! :dozey:

where am i gonna download porn vids now ? :bigcry:

 

 

ermm i mean, scooby ddo episodes erm yup :uhoh:

good thing i dont use rapidshare

When will those idiots finally come around to admit that some piracy is good for the music industry.

 

Take for example a new artist, someone shares a link to their debut album which has managed to "slip the net" of the main music sites, so chances are that you wouldn't have heard of the artist, you download the link and listen to the album a few times before deciding that the album is actually really good, so you go out and buy the album, maybe some of the singles from iTunes, maybe go and see the band perform the songs live in concert, buy a tee-shirt etc, spreading the word around as you go. So when the 2nd album is released the fan-base is a lot bigger than it would have been if the shareholders kill all piracy.

Rapidsuck! Still... it better not set a precedent for other file hosting sites!

When will those idiots finally come around to admit that some piracy is good for the music industry.

 

Take for example a new artist, someone shares a link to their debut album which has managed to "slip the net" of the main music sites, so chances are that you wouldn't have heard of the artist, you download the link and listen to the album a few times before deciding that the album is actually really good, so you go out and buy the album, maybe some of the singles from iTunes, maybe go and see the band perform the songs live in concert, buy a tee-shirt etc, spreading the word around as you go. So when the 2nd album is released the fan-base is a lot bigger than it would have been if the shareholders kill all piracy.

 

 

the problem is once a lot of the people download the album, they don't actually go out and buy it, they just wiat for the new one and download that.

You get some idiots like that

noooooooo when I finally had a premium account :bigcry:

You get some idiots like that

 

you get a lot of idiots like that

Well, if those idiots who download the albums support the artist by seeing them live, then it's the lesser of 2 evils

Well yeah the artists get nothing for selling the albums anyway. It's ridiculous how little they get..

IIRC, someone managed to get together a typical cost breakdown of a CD, and the artist only got the equivalent of 46p per CD.

 

That was a couple years back though.

 

I think an artist only gets 12p from an iTunes download.

man this sucks.

IIRC, someone managed to get together a typical cost breakdown of a CD, and the artist only got the equivalent of 46p per CD.

 

That was a couple years back though.

 

I think an artist only gets 12p from an iTunes download.

 

46p?! That's mad.

Just shows how much the record label cream away.

And more artists should do the pay-what-you-want. I mean even if a tonne of people jack the album for free they're still going to make alot of money.

No surprise there!! :annoyed:

I'm so happy the site is back

And more artists should do the pay-what-you-want. I mean even if a tonne of people jack the album for free they're still going to make alot of money.

 

 

how much did radiohead make of in rainbows?

Oh yeah interesting question,how can you find out?

i'll wikipedia it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Sales

 

thats what they have to say

"impossible to obtain accurate sales numbers"

Until someone from the band/management come out with actual figures it will be impossible to tell.