Ministry of Communications: Piracy gave more results than planned – SOUTH – new public newspaper

It’s no secret that the Russian Federation to engage seriously in the fight against piracy in recent years. The achieved results decided to share Alexei Volin, who is deputy head of the Ministry of Communications. In his words, the struggle is a heightened pace, which gives even more results than planned. It turns out that the Russians are willing to use paid, legal content. Such buyers have turned even more than it was planned by the Office

The rate of growth of legal content buyers in Russia are increasing every year and significantly ahead of plan, A.Volin said:. “We expected that in 2013. in the Russian Federation will be 6 million customers in the legal content on the Internet in 2014. These supposed were to increase to 10 million in 2015. – Up to 15 million in 2016. – Up to 20 million in 2017. – Up to 25 million in 2016. – Up to 30 million Russians.. However, the reality hit us. Already in 2013. the number of legal content buyers has increased to 8 million Russians in 2014. – Up to 12 million in 2015. – Up to 18 million Russian users. In the future, we look forward to an even more significant growth. »

However, the International Intellectual Property Alliance has not yet changed the view of the Russian Federation. Office still believes that in our country over the observance of copyright must be keep a close watch. Most likely, this is due to the fact that illegal content is still available in social networks, such as Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, and also very common torrent trackers. In Russia still can not deal with people who shoot in cinemas and then spread to the network spy movies – it’s the problem of the following years, and so the result of a very large

The Russian Federation continues to advise increasing responsibility. copyright infringement. Besides adopt such a law, which would include social networks. They should also be responsible for minor infractions, though strictly – the liquidation of the legal entity

IIPA, recall, is an organization in the United States, which includes seven companies at once.. They produce products that are protected by copyright. Also it annually to make recommendations concerning the protection of copyright in the various countries of the world

A survey conducted recently revealed -. Russians continue to use torrent trackers. In January 2016 these people remained 61%. It should be noted that Russian citizens are not accustomed to such spending their money. Although there are 31% of Russians, who do not want to break the law, but did not want to part with the money. Therefore, we give up everything – and torrent trackers and paid content

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