Are RapidShare downloaders in danger?

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RapidShare is a, “German-owned one-click hosting pay- and free-service (with certain restrictions and limitations) website that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users,” says the Wikipedia . “Rapidshare is one of the world’s largest file-hosting sites with millions of files stored on its servers.” And it allegedly gave a user’s IP address to a major label in Germany, p2pnet reported last week, quoting Gulli.com , which originally broke the news. The data were handed over as per the strictures of Paragraph 101 of German copyright law.