Beware of Illegal File Upload and Download

A few weeks ago, the home of a police raided rapidshare users. This relates to the actions of licensed material uploaded Metallica's latest album Death Magnetic.

Quite surprising really, because as it releases another album, usually a new album the band or singer is uploaded to rapidshare, even one day before its official release. And as long as it is not a problem because the uploader did not mention the use of IP addresses and distribute them directly through Rapidshare. This is presumably because the site-hosting service Rapidshare file of this handed the personal data of people who uploaded the material licensed to several major labels, as reported by torrentfreak.com (04/25/09).

Disclosure of personal identity uploader is the application of copyright law that allows the German to urge the major labels rapidshare to disclose data under the law. The basis of this law also allows them to urge ISPs to open a data file on the user's specific IP.

While this may not happen in our country, this could be a warning to us to be more careful for sharing copyrighted material has.

For those who have information about a similar incident, please write down the info in the comment box.

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