[jacquesm]

> On a sidenote, I could make a pretty good link finder and make it send complaints automatically, there must be some good money in offering such a service to copyright owners

Anybody here probably could, and I'm sure the plaintiffs are aware of that possibility.

Already DMCA takedown requests are generated in an automatic way, but that doesn't change much because another upload is minutes away.

It's a real problem for the copyright fat cats, which is why I don't doubt they'll appeal this to the German national high court.

If they call it quits now I predict a serious increase in German hosting capacity in the near future.