Copyright holders: Yandex - the largest pirate of Runet

The head of the IVI online cinema, Oleg Tumanov, said that the share of Yandex in the search traffic of the ten largest Russian pirate film services is 78%.

Search systems are the main source of traffic for pirate resources, follows from the presentation of the general director of the online cinema IVI.ru shown during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF) Oleg Tumanov, which is based on Simlarweb data, Yandex.Metrica.

“Large pirates as a whole turned out to be blocked,” he said earlier in an interview with the Russian media, “but immediately medium and small ones appeared, which rise in search results. First of all in Yandex. There is no such thing in Google. Yandex allows you to find pirate resources and watch their content, this creates huge problems for legal distribution. ”

The share of Yandex, the Presentation of Tumanov said , in the search traffic of the ten largest Russian pirate film services is 78%.

Alexander Akopov, a member of the Board of the Association of Cinema and Television Producers and co -founder of the production of Cosmos Studio, said that Yandex today is the main platform for pirate content. According to him, Google is also engaged in piracy, but the American company carries less harm:

“We are negotiating with Yandex about the settlement of the situation on the work of the search service with pirate content, but so far to no avail.”

Yandex said that the search engine works in accordance with applicable law. The company explained that "video recordings are posted on the sites of third parties and are played in the player from these sites, and the search engine only shows links to these videos."

The general director of the Internet Video association, uniting cinemas IVI, MEGOGO, TVZAVR, AmediaTeka, TV1000Play, Alexey Byrdin in noted that the problem with the spread of pirate content in the Yandex search engine really is.

“At the moment, Yandex’s search services are the main source of the audience of pirate sites, and the Yandex.Video service is the largest pirate video portal of Runet,” he said.

According to J'Son & Partners Consulting, the market volume of legal paid video services in Russia in 2017 increased by 42%, to 15.9 billion rubles. Online cinemas accounts for 71.6% of the total volume of video services.

A year ago, the copyright holders accused another service of the Russian Internet giant-Yandex.Musicia of expanding piracy. Next in line Yandex.PROKIS AND YANDEX.DGOD.

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