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German Court Slams Rapidshare With $34 Million Fine
- billpg 17y agogmail next?
- cabalamat 17y agoBetter still, ban the Internet completely. As Sony CEO Michael Lynton said, nothing good has ever come from it.
- cabalamat 17y agoIn related news, the same court has issued an order requiring all ISPs to prevent their customers from filesharing any copyrighted material belonging to the RIAA or MPAA; ISPs must spray their routers with the magic pixie dust that the court knows the ISPs possess but which they deny having.
- vinutheraj 17y agoHmm, makes me think, shouldn't a person passing a judgment on such a technical thing have knowledge of the field, or consult some person who has knowledge of the field, and I am not talking just about this ruling, I am talking of any field where the judge may have no expertise at all !
- blhack 17y agoThey do consult people with "knowledge" in the field. The problem is that the "experts" are experts in the sense that the kid up the street is to your mom when it comes to power-button usage on her new dell. That is, not experts at all, but full of enough bullshiat and hand waving that the judge (who doesn't know much, if anything, about tech. or the subject at hand) believes what he or she says as gospel. Double bonus multiplier if the "expert" is on the RIAA/MPAA/etc's payroll.
- ilitirit 17y agoI'm not so sure there was a fine involved. From the comments: Guys, get your story straight. There was no 24 million € fine. That figure is the value of the subject matter of this injunction verdict as determined by court.