Illegal File Sharing on Rapidshare.de - How to get help
[tags]rapidshare, rapid share, rapidshare account, copyright, intellectual property, file sharing, illegal downloads, p2p networks, [/tags]
There’s one thing that have made me really annoyed for the past week. An e-book I published have been circulating illegally on Rapidshare.de - and the worst part - it was almost impossible to get any help from Rapidshare.
They don’t list their contact numbers on the site. I had to whois them and even then there was no response. After several attempts I finally got to the right person. He was helpful and removed the files from being shared across the network.
If your files are being shared illegally on Rapidshare.de, please take note of the email address on the screenshot below. This is the correct email add to send your complaints to. Too bad they didn’t bother to put it on their website!
If you’re an information marketer, you probably realize that’s impossible to stop people from sharing your ebook, and there’s no reason why you should exert your time and enery on chasing or tracking them down.
But sharing your copyrighted information on a public network and giving out the URL in forums is a different matter altogether. It gets worse if others start to report the incident to you and you notice more reports each and every day.
To find if your product is being illegally distributed on Rapidshare, type this in Google:
[file name or keyword here] rapidshare.de/files
My 2.5 cents: Rapidshare may be one of the biggest file sharing networks around, but they have to take responsibility over the content shared by users. If they keep up their lousy reporting and complaints procedure they might just end up like Pirate Bay.
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ahaha….gobala…!!! remember me, looks like u found the solution at last….well u can’t blame them for that. since by sharing illegal stuff..they are getting lots of traffic to their site….hmmm..
can that be another marketing strategy..LOL…just my 2 cent
remember napster… centralized file sharing is dangerous and you have to shoulder the blame for activites in your network
well… they were helpful enough.
Gobala,you are the right person to doing this research.The is their ” Target Advertising program” .
Gobala you’re right, I’m one of Millions of users downloading contents from hosting providers. I do for studing and entertainment purpose, others receive incomes by hosting those contents (Rapidshare on the top). Please tell me who is illegal, the hosting provider or the user??? By visiting warez web sites I’ve the clear impression that they sponsor Rapidshare by providing its links contribuiting so to increase Rapidshare world wide image and assett. Last one, I really believe that Rapidshare in some ways support those warez sites by providing them some facilities that help them keep the web site alive. Do you understand Marketing???
I have a similar complaint against Rapidshare too. Is there a way to get compensation legally, at low cost to me?
I found a link to my content on a blog. It pointed to rapidshare, which I wasn’t really familiar with but on the support page they list a phone, support email and abuse email along with the abuse policy. If you dial the number someone actually picks up. I sent an email with my contact info. the link and the website which posted the link. I don’t know if they improved due to complaints but the link was deleted in a few hours. I would like to know, how to get identify the uploader; seems I should be pursuing that individual not rapidshare, and rapidshare should provide me with the details IP, date, etc. I feel that if they would provide that info., I could hire a descent investigator to trace it down to the uploader’s machine. All the file links should display the uploaders info. Would that be so bad?
On a side note, what did happen to piratebay? they seem to be everwhere and I thought they were taken down, but I see new files posted everyday on that site.
I find it amusing for you to think a Pesky government, even with the help of the RIAA, could come close to stopping a major Piracy circle, most European “raids” only stop them for a day or two, as long as there is demand, Piracy will never stop, thank God France has caught on and wants to introduce a bill giving people the right not to be criminalised.
The only way to stop a copy being made of anything, is never letting anyone access it, as long as movies are played in theaters, people will be able to get a camera and record them, as long as music can be heard, people can get a microphone and record it, and as long as someone has access to your “intellectual property” it can, (and with enough merit), probably will be be copied.