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Raimer told us that RapidShare has a well-staffed anti-abuse department that acts quickly on infringement notices and terminates the accounts of users who get caught violating copyrights three times. All fairly standard stuff for a company of RapidShare’s standing, but what about going beyond the call of duty?

Surprisingly, Raimer informs us that their abuse department has another job – to proactively search the Internet for potential infringements occurring on RapidShare’s service.

“We have developed a crawling technology that is constantly watching Internet forums, message boards and warez blogs for information about copyright infringement taking place on our system. The information collected by our software is then being evaluated, verified and processed by our anti-abuse department,” Raimer explains.

“Unfortunately, I cannot tell you any details about how this software works, but what I can tell you is that it is pretty sophisticated and that it is able to break most of the countermeasures that warez sites are using against automatic read-outs.”

This highly proactive anti-piracy stance is certainly intriguing, but will it lead to more friendly terms with rightsholders or will they see it as a chance to keep coming back for yet more concessions?

More:

http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-from-notorious-market-to-proactive-piracy-eliminator-120208/

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/8415231/file-sharing-sites-must-be-cautious-in-megauploads-wake

Much of the sheer beauty of the internet is that it’s an open system. No one decides who can join and no one controls how it’s run – making it the greatest democratic force the world has ever seen. What’s really odd about the current situation is that democracies all over, including ours, and America – the so called champion of the free world – are being duped by corporate interests to pass totalitarian restrictions on internet use.

http://www.themusicvoid.com/2012/02/shutting-down-the-internet-whats-at-stake/

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-06/europe/31028863_1_ukraine-yulia-tymoshenko-president-viktor-yanukovych

The home has been seized, along with other items, following a court order made on February 1 made after it was sought by United States authorities.

http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=716642&vId=

File host videobb did not respond to questions from CNN regarding its anti-abuse policies, but links to the site’s content were noticeably absent from sites like Side Reel following Megaupload’s shutdown. Direct links to videobb’s movies and TV shows that were available less than a month ago are now gone.

The change suggests videobb is stepping up anti-abuse efforts in order to avoid the fate of Megaupload, a Hong Kong-based site which is accused of knowingly hosting illegally pirated material. It would be almost impossible for videobb to completely eliminate illegal content, but just the effort to do so may be enough to shield it from criminal charges.

http://www.local10.com/thats-life/technology/Megaupload-case-spurs-other-sites-to-step-up-anti-piracy-enforcement/-/2944584/8612894/-/xs8wvr/-/

http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2012020819519/french-catch-up-tv-firms-hail-megauploads-closure.html

And if you think China is safe, think again. Dotcom’s business was Hong Kong based. We allknow that file-sharing, illegal streaming and the rest go on here as much or maybe more thananywhere else. Considering its record-breaking Internet population and intense development,this should be no surprise.

It’s economic warfare out there. Or, business as usual.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-02/08/content_14556315.htm

French language articles:
http://www.terrafemina.com/culture/culture-web/articles/10387-fermeture–apres-megaupload-cest-au-tour-dallostreaming.html
http://lci.tf1.fr/high-tech/apres-l-arret-de-megaupload-allostreaming-choisit-de-fermer-6945283.html

http://www.crazyengineers.com/btjunkie-bids-goodbye-this-must-be-internet-apocalypse-1764/

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/4544/end_of_the_internet_or_the_beginning_of_a_new_style_internet/index.html

In the aftermath of the MegaUpload shutdown, file-hosting sites continue to change their services.

http://torrentfreak.com/turbobit-net-blocks-us-visitors-after-megaupload-shutdown-120207/

In the wake of the Megaupload raids and attacks on domains in the US and elsewhere, the administrator of yet another site has decided to call it quits.

QuickSilverScreen (QSS) first appeared in 2004 but faced its first legal action 2 years later in 2006.

Twentieth Century Fox asked the site to take immediate action to stop infringements of Fox copyrights. The site’s operator approached the EFF for help but was advised that the site might indeed be breaking the law.

QSS was owned by a guy called Steve Thompson but according to a source close to the site, in the wake of these threats he gave the site away to two individuals known as “Neels and BigCheese”.

The pair ran the site up until 2010 when the site changed hands again. A year later it was transferred to yet another new owner.

According to our source, QuickSilverScreen had over 600,000 members but despite the site’s traffic health, the new owner has also had enough. Fearing prosecution he shut the site down last week.

More:

http://torrentfreak.com/quicksilverscreen-streaming-site-calls-it-quits-120207/

Radio New Zealand reported Thursday that he was bailed by the North Shore District Court with conditions applied which included that he did not use the Internet.

http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/02/09/2821s680094.htm

Previously:

http://vrritti.com/?s=kolk