RapidShare Targets Pirates

For years now rapidshare has always been well known safe haven for the pirate & downloading community, it was easy to just go to a set address then with a few clicks grab the material you wanted. copyright infringement was just another one of those things on the internet but not anymore, rapidshare are reporting that they are taking a firm stand on the ones behind the spread of internet piracy. Rapidshare are stating that they are actively logging the ip addresses of both uploaders & downloaders. The site gets hundreds of millions of visitors a month but its not the only filesharing site out there so it makes me wonder will it make much of a difference to the current availability of pirated material online. The site is listed as one of the internets most used sites but the owners have faced many lawsuits over the material located on the their servers. Currently the site is vastly popular with its users & passing visitors so I’m assuming that filtering & logging ips will only cause the pirates to move on to a competing site of a similar nature.