Sites will prohibit links to pirate content

The Ministry of Communications presented a finalized version of the anti-Pirate law to the government, according to which for the publication of two or more hyperlinks for contrasting content to Internet resources, “a ban on distribution in Russia” threatens.

“These amendments are an agreed position of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Communications,” Grigory Ivliev, Deputy Minister of Culture, explained to Kommersant . The secretariat of the First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, on the behalf of which on May 7, was created a working group to finalize the anti-Pirate bill, said that amendments to the law “On Information, Informing Technologies and the Protection of Information” and the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation entered the Government.

On the basis, the bill of the State Duma of Sergei Zheleznyak, adopted in the first reading in March, was taken as a basis. He extended the anti -pirate law not only to cinema and television products, but also to all other types of content.

According to the bill, “in the presence of repeated and (or) gross violations of exclusive rights”, the Internet resource can be recognized as “prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation”.

For violation of the procedure for restricting access to resources with pirate content, site owners and hosting providers threaten fines up to 1 million rubles. The same fines are provided for the copyright holders who presented the “obviously false information to the owner of the resource or the hosting provider about the availability of rights to copyright and related rights”.