Rapidshare face imprisonment for e-books

d by prison sentence and will face

* Each book is displayed in this protected content hosting service could cost the company 250,000 euros.
* A court Rapidshare forced to block access to books.

A Hamburg court has urged the content hosting company to eliminate 148 Rapidshare eBooks. Otherwise, the owners of the company would face jail terms of up to two years and fines of up to 250 thousand euros.

The court has ruled in favor of six-book publishers Bedford, Freeman & Worth and Macmillan, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Pearson, which this month filed a lawsuit against RapidShare, as recorded by Los Angeles Times.

The Hamburg Court ordered them to quickly block access to pirated books

The lawsuit cited 148 copyrigth titles whose rights belong to those publishers that were available to the users of its digital version Rapidshare.

On 10 February the Court of Hamburg ruled that the company should stop distributing the securities to which the editors allude in their application. So he ordered his own, Christian Schmid and Bobby Chang, "quickly block" access to pirated books and "take the necessary measures to prevent similar situations in the future."




According to Torrent Freak publishes, each time a book from this list appear in Rapidshare, it could cost the company 250,000 euros and even result in jail time for their owners.

It is not the first time received an order from Rapidshare content filtering, and in 2009 the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled that the company had to eliminate 5,000 catalog items GEMA.

http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-ordered-to-proactively-filter-book-titles-100224/