City Court in Prague, First instance court, Civil, Share-rapid.cz, 31 C 72/2011-33, December 12, 2011

The Court hold an operator of a cyberlocker liable for committing a copyright infringement. As the decision came in the form of the default judgment against the operator, the grounds for the decision were not given. The plaintiff, however, claimed direct copyright infringement, arguing that loosing of the hosting safe harbor leads to communication to the public. If the Court accepted this, or some other basis for liability, is not clear. The Court obliged the defendant to pay 536.000 Czech crowns (19.507 EUR) from the title of unjust enrichment by letting the users to download the work almost 14.000 times by its default judgment. The case was appealed, but was rejected on appeal on merely procedural grounds. see also eisionline blog; Martin Husovec, Case Note on the share-rapid.cz Case, 8 Revue pro právo a technologie (2013)