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Members help
RuTracker.org will not appeal the decision of the Moscow City Court on their own, reported RBC representative of the resource. “We are legally and physically located outside the Russian Federation, and plead with the Russian authorities in the Russian occupation of the court, it seems to us, unpromising,” – said the representative of the resource. Company Dreamtorrent Corp., which develops portal RuTracker.org, registered in the Bahamas (data service Whois).
The decision to lock the resource RuTracker.org Moscow City Court on 9 November. The court granted the petition of the publishing house “Eksmo” in respect of copyright protection to 10 works of authors Dmitry Yelets, Alexei Kalugin and Alexei Orlov. The service has a month to appeal the decision before it comes into force. After 30 days, the resource will be forever locked Roscomnadzor.
As explained RBC representative RuTracker.org, the company will ask its own members to challenge the decision in Russian courts “because the lock affects the interests of the citizens of the Russian Federation, and is only valid on the territory of the Russian Federation, it would be logical if they challenge the decision of the courts of their own. ” RuTracker.org promises to help users with legal advice and lawyers through a special forum.
In addition, RuTracker.org will encourage its users to bypass the lock, a spokesman for the resource. For example, wishing to use RuTracker.org may use anonymizer – hardware (eg, special sites), allowing 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. Representatives RuTracker.org promise to create a special forum where you can get advice on setting up the software associated with the Bypass.
Most people are ready to lock, according to the RuTracker.org, referring to the recent online survey. October 29 RuTracker.org invited its users to vote for the fate of the resource – delete distribution or to wait for a decision on a permanent blocking of the site. As of November 9, 67% of voters choose “Let the block, I’ll look for ways to circumvent the lock».
A person who is not a party to the proceedings, in this case – users RuTracker.org, may appeal decision to the Moscow City Court, alleging violations of their rights, such as access to information, the lawyer said the nonprofit organization “Roskomsvoboda” Sargis Darbinyan. In this case, it is irrelevant how many users will want to take part in such a lawsuit – one person or millions. According to him, “Roskomsvoboda” is ready to cooperate with users RuTracker.org to file a complaint on this issue.
RuTracker.org, created in 2004 – one of the most visited sites and the largest torrent tracker Runet . According Similarweb, is the most popular in Russia in the category of file sharing site in September resource visited 76.3 million times. According to statistics of the RuTracker.org, the portal registered more than 14.5 million users, the number of hands the content exceeds 1.6 million. Audience site in September 2015, according to the counter LiveInternet, was 13.8 million people.
Attempt number three
The lawsuit, in which the Moscow City Court on November 9 issued a decision – not the first treatment of “Eksmo” against RuTracker.org. The first decision on the suit of “Eksmo” concerning the works of Yuri Nikitin (pen name Julius Orlovsky), Vadim Darischeva (pen name Alex Orlov) and Alexei Kalugin, was issued on 27 July. The second judgment was passed on October 5: The Moscow City Court ordered the distribution RuTracker.org remove 12 novels and writer Alexander Gromov Daria Series.
According to the AZAPO Gudkovoj Svetlana, all the works in which “Eksmo” previously addressed in court After adjudication removed from the resource. However, due to the fact that RuTracker.org systematically violated the rights of different authors, publishers lawyers failed to prove “malice” action creators of the resource and make a decision on his lifelong blocked.
The amendments to the law “On Information, Information Technologies and protection of information “to allow for life to block the sites if the same thing twice won the right holder of the copyright in court against the resource, entered into force on 1 May 2015. The so-called advanced anti-piracy law extended its action to all kinds of video on copyright and related rights, except for pictures on the audio and literary works, as well as software.
The first decision of a lifetime blocking websites was issued 14 October against Rutor.org and ten portals on the suit “Bazelevs distribyushen” (company belonging to the group Bazelevs Timur Bekmambetov, specializing in the production of art and commercials). November 2 Moscow City Court also granted the “daughter» Universal Music «SBA Music Publishing “on lifelong resource locking Pleer.com.
The client decides to
at the mercy of users in August was abandoned fate of another resource – “Wikipedia”. Page Internet ektsiklopedii on Narcotic Drugs charas was entered in the register of banned resources Roskomnadzor by the court of the Astrakhan region, which threatened to lock all “Wikipedia”. The company refused to remove the article that the fund management “Wikimedia RU” (engaged in the support of “Wikipedia” in Russian) explained that “the decision to remove the article, participants take” Wikipedia “.
But then the “Wikipedia” has changed the address of the article, and community members rewrote the material itself – the text remained only academic sources, such as links to the site of the United Nations. As a result, Roskomnadzor ruled August 25 article from the registry, because the information that the court recognized the forbidden, was edited.
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