In recent months Rapidshare has aggressively targeted search engines and indexers that abused the company's trademark and facilitated copyright infringement. These actions are part of their campaign ...

The Regional Court of Hamburg has ruled in favor of German collecting society GEMA, which had requested that the court issue an order prohibiting file-hosting service rapidshare.com from making… By ...

In March 2007, a court ruled that Rapidshare could be held responsible for copyright violations committed by users who uploaded copyrighted material to their servers. Now, rumors are circulating that ...

Bad news for those who still use the hosting website Rapidshare to store and download new music (hopefully, not illegally): you'll need to find another place to go. After thirteen years of business, ...

Online file locker Rapidshare is legal in Germany, but has to adjust its policy regarding infringing content, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled. Rapidshare plans to appeal. Rapidshare, ...

Things were seriously rocky for file sharing sites after MegaUpload was raided and shutdown three years ago. Several other sharing sites voluntarily closed their doors shortly after to avoid suffering ...

File-sharing behemoth Rapidshare, its headquarters are pictured here, announced it will cease to exist on the last day of March. Wikicommons Farewell, Rapidshare. One of the pioneers of online ...

The popular file-sharing service says it’s gone on the straight and narrow After declaring the FBI’s raid on Megaupload a success, an executive at Paramount Pictures released a hit list poster ...