IPKat reported news that the P2P site RapidShare is threatened by new multi-million fines.
The court in Hamburg, Germany condemned the company in 2009 to pay 24 million euros damages for breach of copyright and related rights to over 5000 music distributed through the site.
Now many producers and publishers as John Wiley, Cengage and McGraw-Hill RapidSaher requested by the court to stop the spread of 148 copyrighted works.
According to the court the company needs to monitor what its users upload as strength and to prevent such infringing copyright and related rights.
In a series of regulations and legislation in Europe, America seeks to limit the copyright infringements and to destroy the easiest access to movies and music based on sharing.
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