The Moscow City Court considered the claim for protection of the exclusive rights “Bazelevs distribyushen” (company belonging to the group Bazelevs Timur Bekmambetov, specializing in the production of art and commercials) and decided to restrict access to torrent trackers Rutor.org and dozens of sites on a permanent basis . Thus, Russia was first applied Lifetime lock resource, which was posted pirated content, he told RBC representative of the Moscow City Court.
In addition Rutor.org, which has the largest audience among the decision fell under the Moscow City Court sites (23.2 million in September, according to Similarweb), subjected to constant blocking of resources Bobfilm.net, Kinozal.tv, Tushkan.net, Tvserial-online.net and other sites. According to statistics Similarweb, the number of visits by users all fallen under lock resources in September exceeded 75 million.
Most of the sites is available, checked reports RBC. Representative Vadim Ampelonsky Roskomnadzor noted that before the sites will be blocked, the decision of the Moscow City Court will have to enter into force. In addition, the defendants can still challenge it.
Initially, “Bazelevs distribyushen” filed a lawsuit against 14 defendants, but the Moscow City Court refused to clarify how it was possible to avoid blocking sites. Representatives of the parties did not appear at the hearing, which was held on October 14, the press service of the Moscow City Court,. In reviewing the claim was attended only by representatives of Roskomnadzor.
The representative Bazelevs refused to comment, explaining that communication with the pirate sites about software copyright is engaged in a separate company.
The effect of blocking
Rutor.org warn its users about a possible blockage in April, explaining that the entry into force on 1 May amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”, as well as the Civil Code, which allows you to block sites for life ie, if the same thing twice won the right holder of the copyright in court against the resource. The so-called advanced anti-piracy law extended its action to all kinds of video on copyright and related rights, except in pictures and audio literary works, as well as software.
The founder of the non-profit project “Roskomsvoboda” monitoryaschego lock RuNet Artem Kozlyuk noted in conversation with RBC that Rutor.org has long been in the register of Roskomnadzor, so he is no stranger to the lock. Now when you try to go Rutor.org the user is automatically redirected to the page with the other domains – the so-called “mirror” – for example, X-tor.org, New-rutor.org and others.
Kozlyuk believes that the attempt lock resources can result, including the fact that the popularity of the site among the audience even grow. Most people at this point already have the knowledge to bypass the lock, using relatively simple manipulation (for example, the inclusion of services VPN).
disagrees Ampelonsky: in his opinion, 90% of users, when confronted with a stub on site on an operator simply moves to another resource, he says. Partly word Ampelonskogo confirmed by statistics Similarweb: from April to September Rutorg.org audience dropped from nearly 70 million users to 23.2 million.
Who’s Next
This week, the Moscow City Court was filed a claim for a permanent blocking of torrent tracker RuTracker, monthly audience which, according to Liveinternet, is about 14 million users. According to the National Federation of the music industry (NFMI) Leonid Agronova, the claims put forward in the name of one of the companies – members of the federation.
As explained in a conversation with RBC partner of law firm Semenov & amp; Pevzner (represents the interests of copyright holders, members of the NFMI) Roman Lukianov, on Monday, the Moscow City Court was filed on behalf of the “SBA Music Publishing “(Russian” daughter »Warner Music Russia) on the preliminary interim measures in relation to site RuTracker. Tuesday, October 13, the Moscow City Court upheld this claim, and now the legal owner has 15 days to file a lawsuit demanding the constant lock site.
With the mediation of Roskomnadzor October 14 representatives NFMI held talks with representatives Rutracker. org. In a conversation with RBC Agronov noted that copyright holders have voiced their demands to Rutracker, and site representatives verbally promised to meet them.
It is necessary to understand how they will be technically implement these measures, says Ampelonsky. According to him, negotiations of Rutracker continue next week and possibly copyright holders will not file a lawsuit demanding life lock resource. Earlier, representatives of Rutracker declared their readiness to provide holders a special account through which they will be able to remove links to illegal distribution.
In RuNet has more than 5 thousand. Pirate resources, experts considered cluster “RAEC / Media.” Because of this legal area found ourselves short of about $ 200 million of revenue, while pirate sites to earn advertising about $ 70 million per year, leading experts’ assessments “RAEC / Media” cluster representative Olesya Teplova.
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