Durov removes music from VKontakte at the request of companies with which the tycoon Usmanov - TVNZ

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Thursday, June 13 VKontakte administration launched a massive attack on the audio content. The downloaded songs ruthlessly purged. The users receive notification: “Audio-such withdrawn from public access in relation to the treatment of owner”.

Scraping content piracy blew social network. Pavel Durov accused of mortal sins. Ask for, demand, beg to return to music. He send their curses are called, to say the least, short-sighted and threatening to permanently leave VKontakte.

objectors became a pioneer-singer Victoria Dayneko, which, after a failed attempt to load the tune of Adam Lambert published a post on Twitter: “I love this network, but the threatening letters do not like anyone. . ” And removed the page VKontakte, which signed up nearly three thousand people. However, later admitted in the same tweet, he misses the VC, and the problems with the owners will probably find out how to solve.

Currently users are complaining that disappears from the playlist, mostly foreign music. Among the forbidden, for example, Lana Del Rey, who recently canceled a concert, Eminem, ZZ Top, Linkin Park, 30 seconds to Mars, The Rolling Stones. But Depeche Mode, in particular, The Smashing Pumpkins and Mettallica yet available.

to collect complaints promptly brought hashtag # vernitemuzykuvk and formed a band. In a few hours it included two thousand people.

VKontakte may lose users. Photo: screenshot of the page vk.com

Deleting records associated with a simultaneous appeal to the administration VKontakte largest holders of rights to musical works. Lists the labels Universal Music, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment.

Photo: screenshot of the page vk.com

Anti-piracy war may be associated with a change of policy on social network after the arrival of a new shareholder – investment company UCP, the head of which Ilya Scherbovich in one of the first statements promised to deal with unlicensed content.

However, it is possible that at trimming social networks Pavel Durov pushed another shareholder – tycoon Alisher Usmanov. In his company is holding USM holdings YUTV who specializes in music and entertainment industry. Internet channel Clipyou, for example, is working closely with the same Universal Music, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI bargain. Probably no accident Pavel Durov went to meet pravoobladetelyam after extremely dubious about the criminal case running over a police officer. Evil tongues say that without the patronage at the highest level, he would hardly be able to avoid responsibility.

So, users do not blame Pavel Durov. Maybe he did not want to remove pirated content.

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videos gay too is struggling. And, as noted by experts, illegal movies removed slowly and almost imperceptibly, and therefore not as critical for regular users in the past three months.