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The CEO of VKontakte promised to protect users from the anti-piracy law
Boris Dobrodeev, general director of VKontakte, promised to do everything so that the new anti-piracy law, signed on November 25 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, "does not affect users" of the social network.
“Certainly, we do not see anything good in the adoption of this law either for ourselves or for the industry. We consider a number of formulations to be unreasonably harsh,” Dobrodeev said.
“The only advantage is that we managed to move the entry into force of the law to May 2015,” Boris Dobrodeev.
- The first anti-piracy law was adopted in Russia in 2013. It allowed copyright holders to seek to restrict access to sites with pirated content. Initially, its action extended only to video products.
- The amendments, signed by Vladimir Putin on November 25, extend the scope of the anti-piracy law to all types of content, with the exception of photographs. The amendments allow for lifetime blocking of sites for repeated infringements and provide for out-of-court settlement of copyright disputes.