RapidShare has quickly replaced BitTorrent as most music downloaders’ illegal download repository of choice, and now the site, which is stationed in Germany, could be shut down soon if doesn’t comply with copyright law rapidly (sorry). The site is currently in the process of filtering out all copyrighted material, but they’re having some problems: they may need to hire people to manually filter out copyrighted material. Instead of having to actually pay people, the site may close.

Now, closing down individual sites may get copyright cops the publicity they crave, but its likely dozens of other sites just like RapidShare are going live right now.  [Idolator]