The Moscow City Court has blocked all Rutracker – BBC Russian

Image copyright Rutracker.org

Image caption On May 1 in Russia under the anti-piracy law in addition to the movie hit the books and music

The Moscow City Court decided to “eternal” blocking popular Russian torrent resource Rutracker.org.

As told BBC Russian Service in Moscow City Court, the decision will come into force within 30 days from the date of manufacture in full and after consideration by the court of higher instance, if the management Rutracker decides to appeal the decision.

On the complaint a resource drawn publishing house “Eksmo” needed to remove the torrent tracker distributing books of Gaius Julius Orlovsky, Vasily Golovachev, Alexei Orlov and Alexei Kalugin.

October 29 Leaders offered to users to decide the fate of the project by two options: remove about 320,000 hands in the hope that it will satisfy the requirements of the plaintiffs, or leave everything as it is waiting for a resource lock.

“The site is located more than 1.6 million active hands, of which have remove about 320 thousand in the music sections. Remote distribution thus will be lost almost forever. In case of blockage site audience will decrease approximately 2-3 times as many hands “die” – said the administration Rutracker.

About 67% of voters voted against the removal of hands.

In If the lock enters into force, users from Russia can not directly use the resources, but there is always the option of using third-party applications to get around the ban that Russia is not against the law.

On May 1, 2015 in Russia has legislation that allows not only block sites for video products, as previously, but also for software, music and text.