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German Supreme Court Confirms RapidShare Must Police The Internet And Restrict Anonymous Use

The Supreme Court in Germany has confirmed that RapidShare has an obligation to actively police the Internet to thwart piracy. As a result the Swiss company has become the first cloud hosting provider required by law to monitor external websites for incoming links to infringing files. In addition, users of the file-hosting service now have to face the possibility that sharing files anonymously via the service will be disallowed in future.

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-orders-rapidshare-to-police-the-internet-130819/


RapidShare's New Copyright Manifesto: Proof Not Needed For Account Deletions
RapidShare publishes document that outlines the harsh measures cloud storage providers need to take to please copyright holders, including inspecting private files, not asking questions about DMCA notices, and always assuming the user is guilty.

More:
http://www.digital-digest.com/news-63334-RapidShares-New-Copyright-Manifesto-Proof-Not-Needed-For-Account-Deletions.html

We may not be here much longer. Although we have NEVER received any DCMA complaints and have only posted shows that are not copyrighted. Evidently there is no such thing as due process anymore.

Due Process:
A fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one's life, liberty, or property. Also, a constitutional guarantee that a law shall not be unreasonable, Arbitrary, or capricious.

The constitutional guarantee of due process of law, found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, prohibits all levels of government from arbitrarily or unfairly depriving individuals of their basic constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, ratified in 1791, asserts that no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." This amendment restricts the powers of the federal government and applies only to actions by it. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, declares,"[N]or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" (§ 1). This clause limits the powers of the states, rather than those of the federal government.

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has also been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the twentieth century to incorporate protections of the Bill of Rights, so that those protections apply to the states as well as to the federal government. Thus, the Due Process Clause serves as the means whereby the Bill of Rights has become binding on state governments as well as on the federal government.