Some ISPs intentionally block sharing sites like RapidShare to make better use of bandwidth.

On 19 January 2007, news broke that German collections agency GEMA had claimed to have won a temporary injunction against both RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com. "The latter is said to have used copyright protected works of GEMA members in an unlawful fashion,".[3] To date RapidShare has claimed not to have any knowledge of the content uploaded by the users and of not being in a position to control the content. Through its injunctions the District Court in Cologne had now however made it clear to the company that the fact that it was the users and not the operator of the services that uploaded the content onto the sites did not, from a legal point of view, lessen the operator’s liability for copyright infringements that occurred within the context of the services, the spokesman added. Currently rapidshare is not working.

Both RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com sites are currently still operating and the consequences, if any, of the claimed injunction have yet to be seen. So far, they have not been sued.

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man thats mad dumb...all these sites are going down. I hope rapidshare isn't down as long as demonoid cause thats still not up yet.

That lawsuit was over a year ago. If they were going to shut them down then they would have done it long before today. Seems like it was just a server screw up because they are back up and running now.

Yes today it is back up, even though i dont like rapidshare im glad it hasn't been shut down. NOW JUST RAISE YOUR DOWNLOAD LIMITS RAPIDSHARE lmao.

Actually i hate rapidshare, megaupload etc.. Thier limit simply make us unable to access itw ell.. I luv mihd.. But i still have to support them from goin down.. If they are down, i am sure more organisation will be up to their sleeves n the sites gonna be cracked down 1 by 1..