In Russia, during the day block 13 torrent trackers – RBC

Baker’s Dozen

The decision of the Moscow City Court on the suit LLC “Bazelevs distribyushen” on the protection of exclusive rights to audiovisual works came into force, said the court. In fact, it would be the first to implement the decision of a lifetime blocking BitTorrent trackers on an enhanced anti-piracy legislation (in force since May 2015).

«Bazelevs distribyushen” belonging to the group Bazelevs Timur Bekmambetov and engaged in the production of art and advertising commercials, complained to the Moscow City Court last year. In October, the court granted the claim, and decided to “eternal” restricting access to 12 BitTorrent trackers. The list of sites have Rutor.org – one of the most popular in RuNet torrent trackers from 30.4 million visitors in December, according to Similarweb. In addition to blocking Rutor.org lifetime will be subjected to, for example, the site Bobfilm.net, Kinozal.tv, Tushkan.net, Tvserial-online.net and other sites. The number of visits by users all fallen under lock resources in December amounted to 100 million (Statistics Similarweb).

The Roskomnadzor today received two decisions of lifelong blocking online resources, said RBC’s press secretary Ministry Vadim Ampelonsky. The first relates to just 12 resources on the suit “Bazelevs distribyushen”, the second – site Bigcinema.tv (attendance in December – almost 70 million, according to Similarweb), a claim that meets the company “Network television stations” in connection with the violation of the rights to the series “Londongrad.” All of the resources referred to in judicial decisions have already been made in the register of Roskomnadzor, night operators will notify authorities of a lifetime blocking and to begin its implementation assured Ampelonsky. He said that the blocked resources will be for the domain name.

The “Bazelevs distribyushen” “welcome the entry decisions on the lifetime locked into force” and are confident that it “should help to limit the spread of pirated movies in RuNet” , said RBC head of the legal department of the company Natalia Cherepanov.

Some of the sites listed in the Moscow City Court decisions (for example, Kinozal.tv and Tvserial-online.net), at the time of writing the material was available, checked reports RBC.

Year locks

On the eve of New Year Head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov he has promised that 2016 will be blocked, “the largest Russian torrent trackers.” Zharov said that circumvention tools locks are now using only 5% of the population, and as the “first task” for the agency in the coming year called “cultural development of the legal content consumption».

The ability to achieve a lifelong lock resources with illegal content holders have appeared since May 1, 2015, when entered into force amendments to the Law “On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information”. According to the amendments, if the same thing twice won the right holder of the copyright in court, the offending site is blocked. Those amendments have expanded, and the scope of the anti-piracy law, if by May, he applied only to films and TV series, but now all kinds of content, including books, music, software – everything except the pictures.

Chief candidate for the lifetime ban this year – created in 2004 RuTracker.org, which is the most popular in Russia in the category of site sharing services: attendance in December – almost 78 million (according to Similarweb), the audience in December – almost 14 million unique users ( According LiveInternet).

The first decision of a lifetime blocking RuTracker.org Moscow City Court on the suit of the publishing house “Eksmo” on 9 November. A second similar court decision about the eternal blockage took place in early December – on a joint claim of “Eksmo” and Russian “daughter» Warner Music Russia CJSC “SBA Production”. Lock RuTracker.org could take place in 2015, “Roskomsvoboda” on behalf of the users of the site beginning to appeal court decisions.

However, torrent trackers, whose representatives have said many times, they have not received official notification of the supervisory authorities and recognized the claims to itself from the media, to lock ready wrote earlier RBC. The same RuTracker.org has encouraged its users to bypass restrictions by using anonymizers – technical means to change the IP-address of the device and thus load the pages to which access is forbidden for Russian users, but is open to residents of other countries.

In anticipation of the entry into force of the Moscow City Court RuTracker.org and several torrent trackers, for example, held December 6 the so-called civil defense exercises, in which sites to users from Russia were cut off for days. Attendance RuTracker.org that day, not only did not fall, but even turned out to be higher than in the previous week: 1.27 million unique visitors versus 1.11 million, wrote TJournal.