RapidShare Ordered to Monitor User Uploads

A Higher Regional Court in Germany has ruled that Rapidshare will be required to monitor all uploads to its servers for copyrighted content. The ruling will cause Rapidshare to manually inspect thousands of uploads on a daily basis. A decision to appeal the ruling has not been made at this time. TorrentFreak also points out that the ruling appears to contradict an earlier ruling by the highest European court, where web hosts can't proactively filter copyrighted content as this would violate the privacy of users.