RapidShare Wants A Crackdown on Linking Sites
In common with every file-sharing service, RapidShare is used by some of its members to host infringing material. While RapidShare itself has no search engine, there are many third-party websites that facilitate piracy by linking to copyrighted works stored on file-hosting sites. These websites are the real problem, RapidShare believes. This is one of the messages that RapidShare’s Chief Legal Officer Daniel Raimer is presenting at the Technology Policy Institute forum in Aspen today. Raimer joins a panel on Copyright and Piracy and informs TorrentFreak that he plans to counter the image that file-hosting sites are a problem. Raimer believes it’s important to stress that “legitimate” file-hosting services are merely offering a technology, and are not the ones facilitating piracy. This is also the point the company made in its advice to the U.S
