Is Rapidshare is illigal?

Rapidshare would delete files and ban the ID if the file that is uploaded reported as a pirated and against the copyright law. But since there is people who wants it, there always someone who provide the link. Because someone need it, someone give to fulfill the need. I wouldn't agree with the banning the portal, there are many sites like that, you can mention it. easy share, mega upload, and many other. If you do that it would hurt many internet user

Piracy in all forms is harmful to the person who makes the product and the consumer who buys the product.

While the idea of rapidshare is to upload a file and someone else can get the file has some use, say you create a document that you give away for free, or a video, but your right it is abused by many. As long as rapidshare offers the ability to alert them to copyright or protected material how would you propose we ban them? Then where do you stop?

Sorry more questions than answers but banning things usually doesn't work.

Matt

You see repidshare are taking money for registering on it.

So we are spending money for repidshare and for that money they are giving us movies, music, software, games and others.

Also when you give your friends some movies or music you have by pendrive or some thing else, Does FBI charge you for that.

well my friend do you have all the softwares legal licensed
well i think 90 percent home users have lot of softwares that are not licensed. well we normal people cannot afford it so we download. i think the proper law says that it is a crime if you are caught making profit from the pirated versions. let me tell you a simple thing forget XP. there are thousands of uses who uses office suit from microsoft. now how many of them actually own that software license which is more than 15K in indian currency
not possible for too many people in india
thats is the reason