An American woman has been fined nearly $2 million dollars for illegally downloading

[joebloggs]

I thought you said they wouldn't do that

Witrh all the cheap skilled labour and the chance to pass on the costs I would expect sooner rather than later

where did i say that ? rapidshare only have a six people checking the billions of files on their servers , but then there are ways to help them, any file thats been downloaded x number of times could be blocked until someone has checked it at rapidshare.

but people who upload them only have to name the files as random letters and put a password on the zip file, and their . who knows what the file is or the contents are

and all they're have is a log of meaningless file names ! and you think they have the time or server power to use brute force to crack each of the passwords ?

[somebody]

where did i say that ? rapidshare only have a six people checking the billions of files on their servers , but then there are ways to help them, any file thats been downloaded x number of times could be blocked until someone has checked it at rapidshare.

but people who upload them only have to name the files as random letters and put a password on the zip file, and their . who knows what the file is or the contents are

and all they're have is a log of meaningless file names ! and you think they have the time or server power to use brute force to crack each of the passwords ?

A few months back of course most people wil never get a knock on the door.

But a few test cases i.e the copyright people download files for themsleves obtain the records for that file.

Then make avaiable there own "ilegal" files let them be downloaded when making it known they contain warez.

Like you say Rapidshare will end up in the dock and as i said the mintue jail gets mentioned the suits will not wanna lose there directorship and freedom. How they stop it i dont know.
Shame as the free file sharing services are real handy.