Before the District Court of Cologne GEMA has can obtain last Thursday a temporary injunction against rapidshare.com and rapidshare.de Web pages. The company relied on, that users of the sites have repeatedly illegally offered GEMA works.

Bone of contention was a range established by RapidShare, by the user on the Web site can upload files and they then publicly again can be downloaded from other visitors to the website. Such data as comfortably and without waiting to reach, the operator of the Web site in addition set up a so-called “premium download” service for a monthly fee is required.

As the operator of the Web site but no licence to the distribution of data, as it protects also the GEMA, have, looks GEMA the rightsholders represented by it their rights violated. RapidShare refers, however, that that you could not control and is also not responsible for what data upload users on the website.

In an urgent procedure, the Cologne regional court was now held the desire of GEMA and also said that it was irrelevant, that the service providers would not itself set the content. This change, nothing that the webmaster of the site for the so taking place copyright infringement would stick. GEMA itself naturally welcomes this decision and is thus well prepared also in the fight against YouTube, MySpace and co, because no longer responsible for the data simply cannot be passed on to users, so GEMA CEO Dr. Harald HEKER.