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    • Nov 2001
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    If you can't beat them, join them - RapidShare Lobbies Washington

    After being reported to the US government for being a "bad" website by the MPAA, RapidShare is fighting back the only way that seems to work these days: by lobbying the US government.

    The MPAA and RIAA may have spent nearly two millions dollars lobbying the US government in the last quarter alone, but RapidShare is willing to spend its own small fortune to defend it self to legislators.

    Daniel Raimer, an attorney and also a spokesperson for RapidShare, says that it is unfair to put RapidShare on the "most notorious" piracy list, because it only acts in the same way as Google's YouTube in terms of handing user submitted content, and are more than happy to help filter out content, provided that content owners do most of the work in identifying just what should be removed.

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    Last month RapidShare discovered that they had been reported by the MPAA and RIAA to the US Government for being one of the world's "most notorious pirate markets". Now, on the heels of reports that the entertainment industries spent a small fortune lobbying for domain seizures in the last quarter, RapidShare has hired a Washington based lobbying firm to represent its interests in the US and to start correcting misconceptions.
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