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Police Success In Germany - The End Of Share-Online

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Police Success - The end of Share-Online: German warez site closes down
... And read further down to know more about Rapidgator!

Police have achieved success against file hosting. As the company pursues copyright infringement e.V. placed an announcement, the German One-Click-Hoster Share-Online.biz was taken offline. The authorities had also previously searched the homes and businesses of three suspects who allegedly operated the site together.

The police raids that have been directed against Share-Online were carried out at several locations in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The accusation against the suspects: "Aid for the commercial exploitation of copyrighted works in a variety of cases."

Share-Online has hosted on hundreds of servers in the past files. The offer was used in the month of about six to ten million users. These come from links in forums on - often illegally offered - downloads, such as movies, music, or series.

According to GVU, share online to more than 50 million euros brought together in revenues in the period 2008-2017. Those responsible have probably generated by premium rates for downloading and uploading. Many of the uploaders were also involved by an internal scoring system in the profits, reports the police in Aachen.

In Germany, the shutdown of Share-Online is the first major blow to file hosting. In 2018 there was the first judgment that even in this case could help. So that officers could specify the first course, how to proceed in the future. Who comes next in the case against the operator of the platform in the coming weeks and months will show.

 

Rapidgator closes gates for German Uploaders
After the fall of Share Online, there appear to be changes in the file-hosting on an international stage. So reports the site that one of the biggest one-click-hoster, Rapid Gator, has taken steps to protect themselves from prosecution

As basic copyright infringements are repeatedly mentioned here, the reason for which also Share-Online was closed and their responsibles held accountably, other file hosting services are also currently down for German uploaders or try to make arrangements to preserve a long term agreement free from copyright infringement.


Illegal Streams & Downloads: Telekom must block access to popular portals
The Munich District Court has decided: The German Telekom has access to the popular goldesel.to and to block illegal files offering download and streaming pages for their customers. The music industry is pleased with the step.

Goldesel.to worked on a similar principle as other movie portals, for example, kinox.to or boerse.to: links are shown below (illegal) offers to movies, series, and music albums, via which the user views the content directly in the stream or can start to download to their hard drive.

Legal it is not - but because sites like cash cow offer only redirects to the illegal sites, there are discussions for years about whether the exchange portals clearly violated the law and therefore completely withdrawn from circulation would have to be.

Especially under pressure from the film and music industry they had to activate so-called DNS blocking for the exchange portals in the past Internet providers such as Vodafone: Customers were surfing on the Vodafone network, thus became kinox.to already access in the past and boerse.to locked, whereby was based on a judgment of the district court Munich February 2018th This stated that "users who illegally streaming movies, act unlawfully". Download music offers this judgment, however, it says nothing.

Well, Telekom needs to introduce such a DNS barrier soon: After several record companies had apparently filed suit, the Munich Regional Court has ruled that Telekom customers access to Exchange Goldesel.to must be locked in the future.

Verdict:
Telekom is considering legal action.
However, legally the verdict is not yet in force - the action has been confirmed only in the first instance. When asked by golem.de said a Telekom spokesperson: "We are currently reviewing the judgment and if necessary appeal." Vodafone had filed 2,018 objections to the blockade of kinox.to - but to no avail.

The Federation of the Phonographic Industry (BVMI), however, showed about the ruling delighted: "The blocking access to infringing sites is an important component [...] - especially when initiated other measures to their limits It is very gratifying that now is your chance. has been used to create more legal certainty for the owners. Furthermore, this is also in the interest of consumers that are out on such offers astray. "CEO René Houareau is quoted."

Incidentally telecom customers, calling the homepage Goldesel.to, probably do not have to worry about any legal consequences, even if the judgment would soon become law. Legally the user inputs only an unlawful behavior that occurs when a "clearly illegal" offer is viewed or downloaded.

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