RapidShare Ditches CEO Bobby Chang

Ernesto
April 21, 2010
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RapidShare’s CEO Bobby Chang has left the company with immediate effect. The Switzerland based file-hoster announced that Chang, who headed the company for years, is no longer deemed the right leader to successfully serve the interests of users and partners in the future.

In common with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, RapidShare has steadily increased its user base in recent years. The site has hundreds of millions of visitors each month and is listed among the 50 most-used sites on the Internet.

For years the company behind the popular file-hoster has been led by CEO/COO Bobby Chang, who worked in the telecommunication business before joining RapidShare. In his work Chang had the difficult task of pleasing the site’s users as well as copyright holders, who were increasingly threatening the company with legal action.

Today, RapidShare has announced that Chang will leave the company with immediate effect, but in mutual agreement. The reason cited is that Chang would no longer be the right person to successfully lead the company.

“We will continue RapidShare’s success story, faster and more consistently. We believe we can better achieve this goal with different leadership – for the benefit of our customers, partners and users,” Christian Schmid, RapidShare’s inventor and founder said in a comment.

RapidShare does not give any details on what the future course of the company will be, but the sudden breakup seems to indicate that there have been significant differences in opinion between Chang and other people on the company’s board.

Recently we revealed that Chang had sent out a letter to entertainment industry representatives, looking for partnerships and licensing deals. In this letter he labeled some of RapidShare’s users as ‘criminals’ who would see their accounts terminated more rapidly.

According to Chang, RapidShare would be working on a changed course where they would focus increasingly at converting illegal downloaders into paid customers. Whether or not the plans described in this letter have anything to do with Chang’s sudden departure is open for speculation.

RapidShare’s founder Christian Schmid will take over business management for the time being. He is expected to announce several changes for the benefit of users in the coming weeks.

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Anonymous

Interesting indeed.
Em

Never mind that in the last 2 months netload, hotfile and megaupload saw an increase in activity… not to mention that nl and mu were hosts that pushed data at 1MB/s for free before that, but now they barely manage 128 KB/s on most downloads.
sharethelove

will be interesting to see if Schmid can withstand the warner brothers kiss of death
Pirate

RS is on its way out whether you like it or not. Good thing theres much better hosts available!
yeah

WE WANT

more volume for less money

no need to chop up the files

a proper search engine (blogs are littered with fakes and scams)
redmarine

If he got kicked for trying to remove infringing content then sure.
General Zod

Schmid is taking over. Man your battle stations. Geek at war! Millionaire geek no less.

Interesting to learn that Rapidshare.de and Rapidshare.com are the same companies after all!
bert

that’s public knowledge

RapidShare ist ein Internetdienstleister mit Sitz im schweizerischen Cham, der sich auf den einfachen Austausch von insbesondere größeren Dateien spezialisiert hat (sog. Sharehoster). Er finanziert sich durch kostenpflichtige „Premium“-Zugänge. Nach eigenen Angaben ist RapidShare mit über 160 Millionen hochgeladenen Dateien[1] und täglich 42 Millionen Besuchern [2] der weltweit größte Filehoster. Wegen urheberrechtlicher Probleme ist das Unternehmen immer wieder in die Schlagzeilen geraten.

Unternehmen [Bearbeiten]
Das Unternehmen mit seinen 52 Mitarbeitern (Stand: 12. November 2009) erzielt einen geschätzten Umsatz von fünf Millionen Euro im Monat.[3] Der Gründer und Geschäftsführer von RapidShare, Christian Schmid, hält sich im Hintergrund. Laut dem Datenauswertungsunternehmen Alexa Internet liegt RapidShare derzeit im Dreimonatsdurchschnitt auf Platz 23 der am meisten aufgerufenen Webseiten der Welt (Stand: Anfang Dezember 2009). Zuvor lag die Website über Monate hinweg unter den ersten 20 mit Platz 10 Mitte 2008 als bisherige Höchstplatzierung.[4]Am 20. April 2010 wurde bekanngegeben dass sich Rapidshare von ihrem Geschäftsführer Bobby Chang getrennt hat.[5]

Profil [Bearbeiten]
Für eine kostenlose Nutzung ist die Größe einer hochzuladenden Datei bei rapidshare.com auf 200 MB beschränkt (Stand: Februar 2009). Premium-Kunden können Dateien mit einer Größe von bis 2000 MB hoch- und herunterladen.[6] Die Gesamt-Festplattenkapazität der RapidShare.com-Server beträgt nach eigenen Angaben ca. 10 Petabyte (10.000 Terabyte), angebunden sind die Server mit einer Datenübertragungsrate von 600 Gigabit pro Sekunde (Stand: 1. März 2010)[7].

RapidShare.de [Bearbeiten]
RapidShare.de wurde von Christian Schmid umgesetzt und ging im August 2004 online. Der Ursprung des One Click Webhosting nahm hier seinen Anfang. Vor diesem Datum sind keine anderen One Click-Webhoster bekannt. Zahlreiche Nachahmer haben schon kurz darauf teilweise sehr genaue Kopien des immer beliebter werdenden Serviceangebots erstellt. Nachdem RapidShare.com gegründet wurde und den internationalen Markt weitaus besser bedienen konnte als RapidShare.de, wurde RapidShare.de mit einer Weiterleitung zu RapidShare.com am 1. März 2010 eingestellt.[8]

RapidShare.com [Bearbeiten]
Im Oktober 2006 wurde die Firma RapidShare AG mit Sitz im schweizerischen Cham gegründet. Teilhaber sind u. a. der ehemalige Geschäftsführer Bobby Chang und der Inhaber von RapidShare.de Christian Schmid.[9] Kurz nach der Gründung erschien auf der deutschen Seite die Meldung „Leider sind alle Festplatten von RapidShare.de derzeit voll“, wodurch für normale Benutzer keine Uploads mehr möglich waren. Zwischenzeitlich bot die deutsche Firma nur Uploads von Bezahlkunden an. Mittlerweile ist das aber auch für kostenlose Nutzer wieder möglich. Sowohl die Server von RapidShare.de als auch die von RapidShare.com haben ihren Standort in Deutschland.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidShare
SPECTRE

Meet the man behind the machine. And the machine itself

http://ocantinhodachinchila.blogspot.com/2009/10/rapidshare-para-os-curiosos.html
Anonymous

“mutual agreement”

yeah right.
chicken_nuggets

i apologize for being off-topic BUT THE ACTA DRAFT IS OUT – http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/acta-is-here.ars

please do an article TF!!!
Simon

When the tough gets tougher, leave.
Brian

Who’s the criminal now, dude…
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Nona

Hopefully Rapidshare have seen the light, with the departure of Bobby Chang. Going into partnerships with the entertainment industry, will NOT be in the interest of Rapidshare, nor the users.

There are a lot of competitors out their, and the users know it.

RS is NOT to bow to rightsholders! It is their own responsibility – if the media industry could make uncrackable protections, it would not be possible to find pirated content on Rapidshare or anywhere else.

The industry has become more and more greedy over the years – THEY are the ones who should be sued for their disrespectful behavior towards their customers.

“They” will have to understand that DIGITAL COPYRIGHT must be a thing of the past. Instead of taking people to court, they should focus on making a FAIR business model with respect for the consumers.
Anonymous

@ 2 Em.

I still get well over 500kb/s on MU most of the time.
I might just be lucky though..

Anyways, f*** rapidsh*t..
Maybe a new CEO will make the company better… like being able to actually download stuff.
If they just came out and said “we are a pay service, we also have some free service, but don’t expect it to work” I’d be happier..
Freeleech

Even though I don’t really care about Rapidshare, this is a welcome development.
anonymous

i wonder if we are going to see a stand against, not just the entertainment industry but also against the way all countries seem to be listening to it at the expense of ordinary people? it has to happen sooner or later and by many more companies as well, hopefully as an amalgamted stance against what is essentially a ‘big brother’ society beginning. trying to resist this as an individual or single company is going to be a waste of time. they have drifted across the world, from country to country, just like a plague, taking their time to move slowly, but deliberately. leave it much longer and it will be not almost, but completely, unstoppable. sounds to me like what the Nazi tried to do.
Anonymous

but then better, right?
MAFIAA

yeah Nazis are clowns.
anonymous

@#11. read about ACTA from your link and also found this.

http://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca

things are getting so scarey. read if you dare!
sabret00the

So people are saying that owning a NetLoad.in premium account is better than Rapidshare premium account?
duane

This should be a warning to all internet company CEOs who get in bed with the “entertainment” (read: clown) industries.

It’s clear that the content companies want to siphon money out of the internet to keep themselves alive, and if the internet companies care about keeping their customers and their shareholders they need to react and fight back.

If the content companies say “terminate your users’ accounts” the internet companies have a clear and immediate LOSS (both in ad/subscription fees and in goodwill), while the content companies have POTENTIAL GAIN (supposedly, less piracy). An internet company executive who does what the content companies tell him is very stupid and is working against his own shareholders, so he deserves to be replaced.
Bono

and we will drink to that! Now let’s see what Schmid is made of
Hom3r

Rapidshit can die. The so-called ‘turbo’ premium accounts barely reach 500KB/s, while most other hosts’ free accounts (ex. megaupload, mediafire) can reach 2MB/s+ with little to no waiting time.
DeltaPan

Rapidshare allowed 1000+ items of extremely disturbingly titled child pornography, consisting of 10,000+ split files.

Each with at least one victim of child sex abuse involved.

Video and a lot of photo sets so that’s a damn sight more than 1000 victims in total it represents.

It’s bad enough any Bit Torrent site would allow paedophile related torrents to be present, but torrents are not actual files being hosted so no law actually covers those.

But rapidshare was allowing the physical hosting of those 1000+ paedophile material titles to be actually hosted on their servers, i made TF privy to the list [which in itself as evidential is not illegal] and possession of it not criminal i collated and handed to UK Home Office, police and the Internet Watch Foundation, after they said they couldn’t believe Rapidshare would do such a thing, so i sent the list, each with the rapidshare links to the split files, 1000′s of them, so TF know i’m not full of crap regards this.

The titles were extremely disturbing, many of them, Rapidshare couldn’t have missed them.

So how comes rapidshare has never been prosecuted for allowing the physical hosting and so propagation of very sick material, to anybody with an Internet connection, including children themselves. laws exist against exactly what Rapidshare did and whether they did so on purpose or through negligence to moral duty has to be ascertained, there is no excuse for allowing so much child sex abuse material to be hosted on their servers and given the titles i cannot see how 1000+ separate tiles or a great majority of them anyway, could have been missed, it could only have been intentional hosting, courts should have been required to find why this was and maybe still is, the case.

Countermeasures exist for monitoring sites paedophiles put on the Internet and those sites get taken off, paedo rings get prosecuted and children and society get protected from them, but having all that sick material circumvents such police methods of addressing actual paedophile sites where to navigate them puts the navigator firmly as a paedophile requiring arrest and prosecution and rightly so, many get exactly that, arrest and due prosecution for navigating and downloading paedophile sites and material.

How comes no prosecution has happened regards Rapidshare allowing such material to be hosted and available to anybody and standing to corrupt youngsters themselves who may have downloaded the evil titled files.

Never mind protecting copyright on ebooks and TV shows, films etc, this is obscene, disturbing criminality, not copyright infraction.

Why haven’t Rapidshare been severely prosecuted for allowing paedophile material on their servers numbering 1000+ separate titles, each title representing at least one victim of child sex abuse???

there is something very wrong with my domestic and international law when somebody like Rapidshare has done something like that and face no recriminations in courts, something very wrong.

copyright seems to be more important than child abuse material now, obviously.

I am utterly disgusted that no prosecutions have occurred towards rapidshare, i’ve not checked since i first collated the list and let authorities know every step i took to do so, as an act of actually checking would be a criminal act by me, but for all i know, 1000+ titles of child pornography may still be bloody well hosted by Rapidshare.

It is extremely concerning when people like Rapidshare are protected from prosecution for hosting child sex abuse images and video’s with impunity, something very wrong indeed!

It is disturbing to me, that wherever i turned with the information and proof of what rapidshare was doing, maybe still are, to police, UK Home offoce and the IWF, it was ignored and no action regards this has ever happened, no prosecutions whatsoever.

Something is very wrong there, very wrong indeed.

Rapidshare should be dismantled for that, never mind carry on with a change of directorship and board.
DeltaPan

And what i say @ 25 Apr 21, 2010 at 18:35 by DeltaPan

Is absolutely true, not just trying to cause Rapidshare problems.

I do not lie, duplicity is beneath me.

Especially about somethhing of such serious gravitas.

A fib to spare feelings whatever, maybe, but not lies, i never lie in any serious context, not even in self preservation.

Peace.
dncholas

Chang clearly sees the end and was trying to salvage the RS before going into court with Perfect 10 plus the media giants behind them. I think Chang had the right idea of trying to help OR maybe appear to be helping the copywrite holders and would ease tensions plus look good in court. I think the founder has made a big mistake and will probably lose in court for sure. RS allowed illegal content and made a profit directly from it. Oh well, I don’t like RS anyways.
9ninety9

you can run Bobby but you can’t hide.

run Bobby run.

hehehehehehehehehe
Nitwit

People who download copyright shit for personal use are criminals, ok.

What about the person who owns the company selling access to the copyright shit, and profits personally more than Mr. Burns with his slant drilling company — is he a criminal?
Rob

Rapidshare aka Slowshare is pure shitty. Its slow as hell, Finding RS files require visiting websites bombarded with popups and 5 trillion ads in your face. Downloading 60 separate files are annoying as hell. If you’re going to pay for warez you might as well subscribe to a usenet service and use NzbMatrix.con to find files. Nzbmatrix has 600+ days worth of warez.
Rekrul

@25, DeltaPan’

So how comes rapidshare has never been prosecuted for allowing the physical hosting and so propagation of very sick material, to anybody with an Internet connection, including children themselves. laws exist against exactly what Rapidshare did and whether they did so on purpose or through negligence to moral duty has to be ascertained, there is no excuse for allowing so much child sex abuse material to be hosted on their servers and given the titles i cannot see how 1000+ separate tiles or a great majority of them anyway, could have been missed, it could only have been intentional hosting, courts should have been required to find why this was and maybe still is, the case.

You really don’t have a clue do you? Rapidshare hosts MILLIONS of files a day. Do you have any idea how many titles that is? If you were to print 1,000,000 million lines on letter size paper, with no margins, it would take over 15,000 sheets. And that’s just for one day. Multiply that by a week, or a month.

Do you think Rapidshare pays people to sit there, going through each file one at a time to see if the name indicates that it’s something illegal? Then view the files in question to see if they’re really what the name suggests? And do you really want them to?

Sure, you’re upset about finding child porn and think they should be doing something about it, but stop and think where that would lead. Let’s say that you upload pictures of your kids playing at the beach and some over-zealous employee reports that you might be a sicko taking covert photos of kids at the beach. Suddenly, you’ve got the cops knocking on your door. No problem you think, I’ll just explain that I’m their parent. Yeah, good luck with that. Where child porn is concerned people are considered guilty until proven innocent. Just ask the parents who have gotten in trouble for taking pictures of this toddlers playing in the tub.

Besides, why stop there? Shouldn’t the post office open every package and every letter to make sure that nothing illegal is being mailed? Shouldn’t the phone company listen in on every phone call to make sure that the conversation doesn’t concern anything illegal?

I suppose you think that Rapidshare could install some magic filter that would filter out all the child porn. Perhaps you’d care to list exactly what words it should look for that will only catch child porn, but allow legal material through. Should it look for the words “9 year old”? Such a filter would prevent the uploading of “Brilliant 9 year old at the science fair.avi”. Maybe it should only look for words like “9 year old giving head”. Oops that would mistakenly catch “My 9 year old give me a head ache.jpg”

So, what’s the magic, fool-proof solution that will block child porn, won’t invade people’s privacy and will be practical to implement?
hms-one

Okay, I’m sorry to bash, but why does anyone use these sites?

Pay to upload to our servers, pay to download from our servers,(we offer free DLs but you’ll have to put up with roadblocks and bandwidth choking), submit to having your activity monitored by a friendly corporation, and be prepared to deal with insidious advertisement, even after having payed on both ends for the privilege.

Oh boy, sign me up!
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Gecko

Sounds easier to just buy a DVD ;-D
Andrew

@Rekrul

Sorry, I had to comment. You used “privacy” in a sentence concerning the Internet.

I agree that child porn should be removed from any site, but the implementation of such a system that filters content being submitted is not only extremely complex, but damaging to that site’s reputation.

Above that, most people who upload illegal (copyrighted, for example) content to storage sites rename the archives that contain it. Implementing such a system would mean doing file checks, signature checks, or content analysis. This would at lease the hardware resources needed to run such a site. Good luck convincing RapidShare.

Personally, I stay away from RapidShare whenever possible. Torrents are a much more reliable solution.
TerribleTony

@33 No, it’s easier to just go somewhere else.
CCC

glad that RS sack Chang.

what Chang plan to do is just plain stupid that many had tried and failed.
AnarchyNow

rabbidshit has to die, they’re clearly mostly full of “infringing material” while not clearly endorsing “copyright infringement” and they’re money-whinners, scammers.
Death to those slow cash-cow download “services”, long live encrypted p2p!
shadowy pirate dodger

@25:
go to the press with such accusations and material, not the police. if you didnt notice, the legal system is split in half, lower half is working as you’d think, prosecute criminals, upper half prosecutes the ones with less money and/or political/otherwise influence for those that have such assets. since this case is clearly in the realm of the upper half, just forget the idea that any legal public body might go after the bad guy, he just has too much money/whatever. but the press has always been a sucker for news like this, dunno, have you tried going to the media with this? wikileaks at least?

(yeah i know this is clearly black-and-white-think, but just look around, how far is it really from reality? its a model that works most of the time, so meh)
dixon

@25

I agree there needs to be new internet laws to hold providers accountable if they know what customers are doing is illegal.

Any site profiting from criminal activities is clearly unethical and without morals.
dixon

@31 Rekrul

“Do you think Rapidshare pays people to sit there, going through each file one at a time”

if they can hire 6 abuse dept. staff to delete files from the thousands of takedown letters they get daily, hiring people to monitor is possible

You seem very paranoid about the government. People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear.

Privacy on the internet has shown that people will only abuse it to steal, hack, plot murder, stalk, cyberbully, and look at things they shouldn’t by looking at.
xcvcx344

If you put “A GE” and “MIN GLE” together, then you will get the url.

It’s a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to- interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends
dwpbike

i think rapidshare must move into streaming, not downloading, if it is to survive. all the porn, and most of the music, that i watch/listen is a one time thing for me. and waiting the next day for part 2 of the rar just don’t get it.
Necrowizard

[quote]RapidShare is entitled to terminate the contractual relationship with users
violating our upload regulations, without notice.
In such circumstances, we will block access and/or delete accounts, including
all contents.
Because of your violation of our terms and conditions, we make use of our
right to close your account until further notice.
[/quote]

They already started…
was a 3 year member, banned for “violating upload regulations” *facepalm*
Jez

A mysterious fat man in a pinstripe suit made him an offer he couldn’t refuse?
DeltaPan

31 Apr 22, 2010 at 00:44 by Rekrul

You are full of it geez’.

All it requires, is for people who run these sites to run a regular,daily, search using the same search terms which were included in the dedicated Rapidshare search engine that pervert posted a link to on Suprbay a couple of years ago which is what first brought it to my attention.

When people run sites, Torrent or cyber locker whatever, they have a fracking responsibility regards child porn not being uploaded.

Since you are so apologist and making rationalisations regards rapidshare, i absolutely question Your moral integrity.
Magic bloody applications and such, you are completely full of it, all they need to do is actually care enough to run a bloody search, then remove it.

I am not, and T.F. have a sample of the list, talking about parental pics of their kids at a beach, they are mainly extremely disturbing titles one could not fail to realise were paedophilic material.
get lost geez.

Running daily searches of main search terms these sick oiks use may not deal with coded titles or other ways they may be obfuscated or munged, but it’d deal with a lot of the obvious stuff and as far as i am concerned, they have a legal responsibility to do what they can to prevent paedophilia from being propagated on these sites.

I know for a fact TPB jump on it, many others do, they don’t require privicy invading software etc like the crap you’ve come out with, no, they are just decent people on TPB and elsewhere and so keep their eyes on what is downloaded, so much for your fracking “magic filter” justification.

Truth is they do not care, rapidshare fail in their moral and legal responsibility in *criminal* law of most countries to prevent their servers from being used to propagate criminally obscene child abuse pornography, and moral duty to at least attempt to protect the user demographic who are youngsters themselves from getting hold of material which could corrupt them for life and bring a rise in paedophile populations, if you don’t understand that, go study some sociopsychology.

About how i haven’t a clue.

You are just one of those arseholes who think there should be no law or rules whatsoever on the Internet and bugger any consequences to society and i really don’t like people like you.

This is not the rights or wrongs of copyright, i am pro filesharing, absolutely, but i am completely against child abuse and paedophilia, but obvious you are not and don’t think anything should be done to counter it by your defence of Rapidshare.

Hows about you go get a fracking clue.

You should be ashamed of yourself, but like most borderline sociopath’s, i doubt you can even accept your attitudes are way out of line.

Hit a raw nerve and you’re one yourself, so felt need to rationalise and defend rapidshare making such heinous material available is it?

Tosser.
Jesus with shaved balls

by by chang!! we’ll miss you… NOT!
Rekrul

@40, dixon;

if they can hire 6 abuse dept. staff to delete files from the thousands of takedown letters they get daily, hiring people to monitor is possible

There’s a big difference between going by a list of files to take down and browsing through thousands or even millions of filenames looking for something that might be illegal. Then, when they find something, it has to be viewed to confirm that it’s what the filename indicates. What if the Rar files are password protected. Despite what shows like CSI would have you believe, cracking passwords takes a LONG time, if it can be cracked at all.

You seem very paranoid about the government. People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear.

Really? Then I suppose you would mind me snooping through your mail, listening in on phone conversations and looking through every drawer, cabinet and closet in your home? After all, if you have nothing to hide…

Privacy on the internet has shown that people will only abuse it to steal, hack, plot murder, stalk, cyberbully, and look at things they shouldn’t by looking at.

People abuse the postal system and the phone system to plot and carry out crimes. Should both of those services be strictly monitored as well?

@45, DeltaPan,

All it requires, is for people who run these sites to run a regular,daily, search using the same search terms which were included in the dedicated Rapidshare search engine that pervert posted a link to on Suprbay a couple of years ago which is what first brought it to my attention.

When people run sites, Torrent or cyber locker whatever, they have a fracking responsibility regards child porn not being uploaded.

I don’t know about the laws in other countries, but in the US, one of the conditions for a service provider claiming safe harbor protection is that they not get actively involved in deciding what goes through their system. They must take down illegal content when notified of it, but once they start actively filtering content, they become liable for any content that they might miss.

If you rent an apartment to someone and they get busted for abusing a child, should you face charges as well because you didn’t conduct daily inspections to ensure that nothing illegal was happening in that apartment? Because that’s the kind of system you’re arguing in favor of.

I am not, and T.F. have a sample of the list, talking about parental pics of their kids at a beach, they are mainly extremely disturbing titles one could not fail to realise were paedophilic material.
get lost geez.

Parents can and HAVE been charged with possession of child porn for taking innocent photos of their own kids. Photo developers have turned in “questionable” pictures to the police. Sure a title like “Toddler sucking c***.avi” is pretty obvious, but what about a file named “Little girl playing with pussy.avi”. Obviously child porn, right? What if it turns out to be a girl playing with a cat and the person who uploaded just had a warped sense of humor? Or “Little cutie playing on bed.avi”? It could be child porn, or it could be perfectly innocent. Someone would have to look at it and make a judgment call. What if the child is in her underwear and pretending to ride a stuffed animal? Is it innocent play, or something sexual? Not to mention that I’ve seen perfectly legal porn labeled as being underage just because the girl in it happens to look young and someone into CP thought it qualified.

Plus, if the people doing these searches only act on the most obvious titles, people will still complain that they’re not doing enough and letting CP through.

Truth is they do not care, rapidshare fail in their moral and legal responsibility in *criminal* law of most countries to prevent their servers from being used to propagate criminally obscene child abuse pornography, and moral duty to at least attempt to protect the user demographic who are youngsters themselves from getting hold of material which could corrupt them for life and bring a rise in paedophile populations, if you don’t understand that, go study some sociopsychology.

No, they run a neutral service which can be used for whatever the users decide to upload. Are storage companies required to inspect every item placed in their units to make sure that the customer isn’t hiding something illegal? Should your ISP be required to spy on everything you do online to make sure that you aren’t doing something you shouldn’t be?

You are just one of those arseholes who think there should be no law or rules whatsoever on the Internet and bugger any consequences to society and i really don’t like people like you.

No, I just think that the blame should be placed on the person who commits the crime, rather than on the company that provides the service.

This is not the rights or wrongs of copyright, i am pro filesharing, absolutely, but i am completely against child abuse and paedophilia, but obvious you are not and don’t think anything should be done to counter it by your defence of Rapidshare.

And once Rapidshare starts doing daily searches to look for child porn, how long do you think it will be before the music industry is demanding that they do daily searches to look for copyrighted music? Or the movie industry demanding daily searches to find & remove copyrighted movies? Or the video game industry demanding daily searches for games?

You should be ashamed of yourself, but like most borderline sociopath’s, i doubt you can even accept your attitudes are way out of line.

Why? Because I don’t support a culture of spying on everything that people do? Sure, you claim that it’s just about child porn, but things like this don’t ever stop with just one thing. That’s just the tip of the wedge used to pry the door open.

Hit a raw nerve and you’re one yourself, so felt need to rationalise and defend rapidshare making such heinous material available is it?

You don’t like my opinions, so you resort to accusing me of being a pedophile. Gee, how original. I guess I’m just supposed to go along with any restriction if it’s “for the children”, right?

That attitude is why several major ISPs dropped their Usenet feeds after the NY attorney general claimed he found child porn on a small percentage of newsgroups. Never mind that they represented something like .001% of what’s available on Usenet, something had to be done “for the children” and ISPs started dropping Usenet access like hot potatoes.
DeltaPan

47 Apr 23, 2010 at 01:51 by Rekrul

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

You are an amoral nutjob simply trying to rationalise paedophiles uploading criminally obscene material.

So why shouldn’t i think you are one being as you are defending their right to upload it, like anybody should have a right to do what they want without recrimination.

Like i said, borderline sociopath.

You cannot see your point of view is wrong, you defend you position regardless.

You are not in the right here, pity you cannot see that.

As for another response to me, using the same old crap of dissecting each point as a quote then spouting more defencive claptrap where there is no defence.

Don’t bother, you’re on over ride and will be comminacating with a brick wall, you are wrong, simply too amoral and lacking integrity that you cannot realise it, egocentrically defending your position as though the victims of paedophilia do not matter one little bit in your tiny little mind in your secular egocentric world where you dream of a warped utopia where everybody can do what they want no matter what or who is harmed.

About you don’t agree with spying, you are saying paedophile material should be available by your continued defencive position to the regard, so yes, i do think you are one, you are defending the right of paedophiles to create, upload their sick minded material and those who would host it.

Why wouldn’t i think you are one, given your defence of them?

Bloody psycho!

***

Nuff said.
RMi

He disapeared faster than their internet connection.
Nick

Yes I believe you do need a proper Search engine, this is why we created http://www.filekingdom.com, so to offer online download manger to all users
ThrillHo

I guess he finally downloaded all the porn on Rapidshare and had nothing left to accomplish.
Lukeey93

Watch Mr Chang’s hilarious presentation here, what an idiot he was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_13a5fRHs
Rekrul

I’m still here, I’m just tired of trying to convince people that their “OMG!!! Anything is justified if it’s for the children!!!” attitude is wrong.

Why is it that nobody will answer my questions? If you think Rapidshare should monitor their uploads, shouldn’t the postal service open every package to check for illegal material? Child porn has been sent through the mail. Opening everyone’s mail would help stop it, so it’s perfectly ok, right? Or how about the phone company listening in on all your conversations? I’m sure that child abuse, links to sites, etc, have been traded over the phone (I’ve done it with links to copyrighted stuff), so the phone company should step in and stop it, right?

Shouldn’t ISPs install deep packet inspection software and log everything that you download, in case someone happens to download any child porn?

How far do you want big brother to go “for the children”?

I’d try to explain how I’m not defending the right to upload CP, but rather the right not to have everything you do on the net monitored, but I’m pretty sure that you still wouldn’t get it.
Whatever

@Deltaplan (except for totally offtopic and not knowing what you are trying todo here)

It seems you’re one of those people more concerned about making rapidshare look bad than about saving children from abuse. Are you like some Dutch politician trying 8 years to get a internet filter installed ? Would it have helped all those abused by the church ?

I don’t know what you have been looking for but with many years of internet use i never came across anything like it. But since you did find it, you must have been actively searching for it and maybe you already broke the law.

If you report it to the authorities you admit breaking the law because as soon as you see it you must have it in your computer memory and have the picture,video or whatever else in your possesion.
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old codger

@ Deltaplan

and to add to @whatever you are also advising any pedo on here where to look for their gratification.

Shame on you
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jojo

Just let the authorities use the same tool the search engine to catch the creators of child porn and end it.

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