Roskomnadzor is ready to accept functions to identify “mirrors” of piracy resources
26.01.2024
Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) supports the transfer of powers to identify a site as a “mirror” of a “pirate” resource and further restrict its work, Roskomnadzor informed RAPSI.
The day before, a legislative initiative aimed at combatting pirated content was submitted to the State Duma. “The mechanism proposed by legislators will allow the agency to independently decide on recognizing resources as copies of sites of copyright or related rights violators and reduce the time of restricting access to them”, the regulator said.
Currently, the decision to recognize sites as copies of blocked resources for copyright infringement is made by the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia, then it sends it to Roskomnadzor. In 2022, on the basis of such decisions, access to 12 000 resources was restricted, in 2023 – to 12 700 resources.
In 2018 industry representatives signed on Roskomnadzor platform the Anti-Piracy Memorandum on cooperation in the field of protecting exclusive rights in the era of digital technology development. During its operation, search engines removed over 178 million links to resources with pirated content from their search results.