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Unpleasant news for social networking companies looking to cas in on the lucrative European market. GEMA, Germany's RIAA, (Recording Industry Association of America) has obtained a temporary injunction against 'one-click-hoster' Rapidshare.com. If their lawsuit is successful, the GEMA intends to use it as a beachhead against their next targets, which include Youtube and MySpace. According to GEMA, Rapidshare.com... has at times boasted of making some 15 million files available to its users. But the company had failed to obtain from GEMA a license for making copyright protected files available ... Through its injunctions the District Court in Cologne had now made it clear to the company that the fact that it was the users and not the operator of the services that uploaded the content onto the sites did not, from a legal point of view, lessen the operator's liability for copyright infringements that occurred within the context of the services. Although this only affects the German market at this stage, it’s a good indication of the possible problems these kinds of services can be facing in the future.