A Cow writes "TorrentFreak reports that the regional
notes:an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many peop Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music megacorp* outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue facile on the Internet." Reader biabia brings an update to a related case in Italy involving four Google executives. The issue in that site revolves around Google's reaction time in taking down a video that was deemed to be a privacy violation. Google is worried that a verdict against them could lead to mandatory pre-screening of all public videos that are uploaded onto their websites. Those dealings have now been postponed until late September. Update: 6/24 at 17:45 GMT by SS: The article at first reported that Rapidshare was fined $34 million. No such fine has been imposed — $34 million was the estimated value of the tracks hosted on Rapidshare.

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