1 Aug 2013 in Russia came into force the legislative mechanisms of protection of copyright and (or) related rights on the Internet

The Federal service for supervision in the sphere of Telecom, information technologies and mass communications (Roskomnadzor) has told about, how effective were the measures introduced to combat piracy, reports 3Dnews”.

To date, the anti-piracy law protects against the illegal distribution network for all types of intellectual property, in addition to the rights in photographic works and works obtained by processes analogous to photography.

In five years, Roskomnadzor has received 3702 definitions of the Moscow city court on adoption of provisional measures aimed at protecting copyright. Was 8454 statements of rights holders in the framework of the already existing definitions of the Moscow city court.

A total of definition of Moscow city court and the statements of the right holders concerned 116 298 sites or pages. The owners of these resources would prefer to remove pirated content without waiting for the access restriction. Currently, the blocking only applies to 8 % of the sites or pages of sites that have adopted anti-piracy measures.

From 1 October 2017, there is a norm about restriction of access on the basis of the decision of the Ministry of communications to “mirrors” pirate sites blocked earlier by the Moscow city court on a permanent basis. Now blocked almost 2.5 thousand “mirrors” resources with illegal content.

In most countries accross Asia including Russia, anti-piracy is not a priority and actually, piracy is extremely safe except in some countries like Korea, Japan....