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Rutracker completely blocked
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01/22/2016
TASS
A decision on a lifetime blocking one of Russia’s largest Internet resource - torrent tracker Rutracker.org - entered into force. On this day the press service of Moscow City Court.
At the end of 2015, the Moscow City Court twice made the decision to lifelong blocking Rutracker. The first time the service was under threat of eternal lock in early November, when the Moscow City Court upheld the claim of illegal distribution of books “Eksmo”, and in December, the court issued a second decision on the permanent lock Rutracker on suits of “Eksmo” and music publishing “SBA-production.”
For the first time in Russia in October, the Moscow City Court the claim of copyright protection has blocked access to the portal rutor.org and 12 other sites with pirated content on an ongoing basis.
Block all pirated resources in Russia was made possible by the new version of the anti-piracy law that came into force in May 2015 Portals locked “forever” in the event that the court recognizes the portal twice violated the anti-piracy law. Such a site gets in the register of banned sites and blocked Roskomnadzor operators in Russia.
https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/news/2016/01/22/625098-rutracker
