Rapidshare is legal, finds German court

Techworld.com reports about a decision of a German court that Rapidshare has a legal businessmodel and does not have to scan the files during the upload process. They are ruled actively monitor incoming links from external sites to the files it hosts and take down any illegal files thus identified. That 's a existing policy of Rapidshare but has been voluntarily so far. Rapidshare will appeal because they think it's wrong to turn hosters into policemen through the means of laws and court rulings. To be continued!