Sunday, August 14, 2016

Russia’s largest online library block in September – RBC

The building of the Moscow City Court

Photos: RBC

Since September, the largest online library “librusec” will be available for residents of Russia. This decision was made at the request of the Moscow City Publishing House “AST»

The Moscow City Court decided to close the online library “librusec” from September 8. He told the head of the Association of copyright protection on the Internet (AZAPO) Maxim Ryabyko, the newspaper “Izvestia”. For information on the resource lock was confirmed by the press service of the Moscow City Court.

According Ryabyko, the court made a decision on the three works “Ancient. Background. Book Three “Sergei Tarmasheva,” Who does not think about the consequences, “Daniel Koretsky and” Delicate leaves, poisonous roots “Helena Mikhalkov.

The press service of the Moscow City Court the publication said that the decision will come into force after 30 days, if “librusec” not to appeal. Otherwise, the court will send its ruling to Roskomnadzor, which, in turn, will make a site in a single register of blocked resources. . Access to the sites from this list for Russian residents blocked

According to the statistics service Similarweb, monthly attendance online library – 9.4 million people. “Librusec” was founded in 2007 by Ilya Larin. Initially intended that the site will be replenished by the users themselves, and download books were free. However, in November 2009 after the DDoS-attacks Site rules were changed. First, the developers have introduced compulsory redirect anonymous users to paid electronic stores when you try to download the book, and after a while, and registered users have lost the ability to download books for free.

May 1, 2015 in Russia came into force on an extended version of the anti-piracy law according to which in the first instance the Moscow City court hears claims about placing online movies, books, music and software. Then the court at the request of copyright owner decides the question of pre-trial interim measures such as the introduction of a pirate site Roskomnadzor registry. Once the page is a resource on which are placed illegal material is in the registry, the Russians can not open it. Some ISPs are blocking the entire site wrongdoing. Also, for repeated violations of the law, the court can lock a resource for all.

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