The German association of defense of the royalties musical, GEMMATED it, has just obtained a new victory against the Rapidshare.
The court of Dusseldorf has just decided that the German host was imperatively to block the access to all the musical contents corresponding to the repertory of GEMMATED on his platform of division. A decision which comes here directly to refute the main argument of defense of Rapidshare, which affirmed that only its users could be held for persons in charge of violation of royalties.
The judge considered this defense weak, noting that the majority of the division lodged by Rapidshare is made on illegal contents, and that the company draws from the substantial benefit of these activities. The injunction of the judge is very severe, because she orders this blocking, whatever are the consequences. The firm “must take measures which are most probably likely to decrease the attractivity of the service of RapidShare, or even to completely make it close” the judgment imposes.
It is the first judgment of a court obtained by GEMMATED against RapidShare, a decision which makes already following two legal injunctions against RapidShare, which did not have, seems it, really not made move the things.