2007On 19 January 2007 the German collections agency GEMA claimed to have won a temporary injunction against both RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com. "The latter is said to have used copyright protected works of GEMA members in an unlawful fashion."[11] Rapidshare started to check newly uploaded files free rapidshare accounts against a database of files already reported as illegal. By comparing the files' MD5-hash the site would now prevent illegal files from being reuploaded. While this would be sufficient under United States law, it was later established in court that under German law it is not. That decision forced Rapidshare to check all the uploaded files before publishing them. [12] A month later, Rapidshare stated on their website that "we will not spy out the files that our clients faithfully upload onto RapidShare, not now nor in future. We are against upload control and guarantee you that your files are safe with us and will not be opened by anyone else than yourself, unless you distribute the download link." [13] 2009According to the TorrentFreak blog, in April 2009 Rapidshare handed over the personal details of alleged copyright infringers to several major record labels.[14][15][16] The incident is reported to have risen due to a leak of a prerelease copy of metal band Metallica's Death Magnetic album.

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