Amendments to the anti -pirate law entered the government

The Ministry of Communications presented the final version of the anti -Pirate law to the government, Kommersant reports . The document implies the introduction of blocking and administrative liability for the repeated placement of hyperlinks for disputed content.

In accordance with the bill, “in the presence of repeated and (or) gross violations of exclusive rights”, the entire Internet resource can be recognized as “prohibited for distribution in the territory of the Russian Federation”. Roskomnadzor will send communication to operators a requirement to block on the basis of a decision of the Moscow City Court. The right to appeal to the court will have a "non -profit organization created to protect the interests of copyright holders."

For violation of the procedure for restricting access to resources with pirate content, site owners and hosting providers are threatened with fines. Their size was established by the bill for individuals of 150-300 thousand rubles, for officials-300-600 thousand rubles, and for legal entities of 0.5-1 million rubles. The same fines are provided for the copyright holders, who presented "knowingly false information to the owner of the resource or the hosting provider on the availability of rights to copyright and related rights."

“These amendments are an agreed position of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Communications,” said Grigory Ivliev, Deputy Minister of Culture. “The Internet industry is in the course of changes, with it it was discussed several times at meetings.”

The bill will cause serious damage to the coherence of the network. This was announced by Kommersant by the director of strategic projects of the Institute for Internet Research Irina Levova. "Foreign copyright holders will be able to block almost any resource in Russia, including the territory of neighboring states where traffic is transit," she stressed.

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

In December, the Ministry of Culture made amendments to the anti -pirate law for consideration by the government, which extends its effect to all types of content, except for music. Ivliev then explained that there are too many sites with music files on the network. If they fall under the law, this will immediately give rise to many judicial disputes. Therefore, it was decided to accumulate law enforcement practice against other types of content.

However, on December 23, the government rejected the bill. “We were recommended to revise the amount of fines for non -compliance with the pre -trial procedure for resolving disputes and make proposals to the text to disseminate anti -pirate law to musical works,” Ivlev noted.

Anti -pirate law entered into force on August 1. It allows copyright holders to achieve a pre -trial restriction of access to video materials published on the Internet in a copyright violation.