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  • Rapidgator Not Responsible for Pirating Users, Court Lifts ISP Blockade

    As part of a criminal investigation by Italian authorities, 27 file-sharing related sites had their domains blocked by local ISPs last month. Rapidgator, one of the largest cyberlockers on the Internet, was among the targeted sites and chose to appeal the verdict. This week Rome’s Court of Appeal ruled that the Rapidgator blockade should be lifted as the site’s operators are not responsible for alleged copyright infringements carried out by their users.

  • RapidGator Goes Down, Suspended by Hosting Company

    RapidGator.net has been one of the fastest growing file-hosting sites since the demise of MegaUpload. In less that half a year it grew from zero to millions of users a day. However, today RapidGator users have been unable to reach their favorite site. While some fear a second Megaupload-like shutdown, the current outage appears to [...]

  • Cyberlocker To Shut Down After PayPal Ban

    RapidGator, one of the file-hosting sites that grew exponentially following the Megaupload shutdown last month, has been banned by PayPal. As a result, the Russian-based site says it will close the service in a month. According to PayPal, the RapidGator account was closed due to the “high risks” associated with processing payments to file-sharing services.

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