Reefa Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Russia has found a creative way of taking down pirates by using old legislation. Online gambling is forbidden in the country so sites carrying such advertising are breaking the law. Around 250 pirate sites were spotted carrying gambling ads by tax authorities who ordered telecoms watchdog Rozcomnadzor to have them all blocked at the ISP level. Blocking alleged pirate sites is usually a question of proving that they’re involved in infringement and then applying to the courts for an injunction. In Europe, the process is becoming easier, largely thanks to an EU ruling that permits blocking on copyright grounds. As reported over the past several years, Russia is taking its blocking processes very seriously. Copyright holders can now have sites blocked in just a few days, if they can show their operators as being unresponsive to takedown demands. This week, however, Russian authorities have again shown that copyright infringement doesn’t have to be the only Achilles’ heel of pirate sites. Back in 2006, online gambling was completely banned in Russia. Three years later in 2009, land-based gambling was also made illegal in all but four specified regions. Then, in 2012, the Russian Supreme Court ruled that ISPs must block access to gambling sites, something they had previously refused to do. That same year, telecoms watchdog Rozcomnadzor began publishing a list of banned domains and within those appeared some of the biggest names in gambling. Many shut down access to customers located in Russia but others did not. In response, Rozcomnadzor also began targeting sites that simply offered information on gambling. Fast forward more than six years and Russia is still taking a hard line against gambling operators. However, it now finds itself in a position where the existence of gambling material can also assist the state in its quest to take down pirate sites. Following a complaint from the Federal Tax Service of Russia, Rozcomnadzor has again added a large number of ‘pirate’ sites to the country’s official blocklist after they advertised gambling-related products and services. “Rozkomnadzor, at the request of the Federal Tax Service of Russia, added more than 250 pirate online cinemas and torrent trackers to the unified register of banned information, which hosted illegal advertising of online casinos and bookmakers,” the telecoms watchdog reported. Almost immediately, 200 of the sites were blocked by local ISPs since they failed to remove the advertising when told to do so. For the remaining 50 sites, breathing space is still available. Their bans can be suspended if the offending ads are removed within a timeframe specified by the authorities, which has not yet run out. “Information on a significant number of pirate resources with illegal advertising was received by Rozcomnadzor from citizens and organizations through a hotline that operates on the site of the Unified Register of Prohibited Information, all of which were sent to the Federal Tax Service for making decisions on restricting access,” the watchdog revealed. Links between pirate sites and gambling companies have traditionally been close over the years, with advertising for many top-tier brands appearing on portals large and small. However, in recent times the prevalence of gambling ads has diminished, in part due to campaigns conducted in the United States, Europe, and the UK. For pirate site operators in Russia, the decision to carry gambling ads now comes with the added risk of being blocked. Only time will tell whether any reduction in traffic is considered serious enough to warrant a gambling boycott of their own. torrentfreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 russia and telecoms have some problems russia blocks much things to do with telecoms Google, AWS IPs blocked by Russia in Telegram crackdown Two million addresses down, 4.2 billion to go - oh, plus the IPv6 address space Russia's telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has started blocking IP addresses linked to secure messaging service Telegram. Russia wants Telegram banished from within its borders, supposedly on national security grounds. First on its list, therefore, according to Roem.ru* (translated), are addresses used by, er, Amazon Web Services (800,000 of them), and more than a million in the 35.192.0.0/12 subnet – Google's cloud. In March, Telegram was told to hand over the keys by judge Alla Nazarova of the Supreme Court's Judicial College of Administrative Cases, and earlier this month the regulator filed a lawsuit to block the encrypted communications application from the country. On Monday, Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov told the state newsagency Interfax (translated) VPN services are also on its watch-list. Companies offering anonymisation services, he said, will be blocked if they allow users to connect to banned services. Telegram founder Pavel Durov remains confident that VPNs will still give users a path to Telegram, and on Friday posted (translated) to his VK account that customers should continue to try to connect over VPNs. There's been one perhaps-unintended consequence of the block: according to Bloomberg, Kremlin officials have had to switch to the Mail.ru-owned ICQ service “for communications with Russian and international media MOSCOW - Russia's communications watchdog says it is blocking access to some servers owned by tech giants Google and Amazon in order to comply with a court order to block a popular messaging app. The Russian Communications Agency on Monday began enforcing a court ban on the messaging app Telegram over its refusal to hand over encryption keys. Telegram, which was developed by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, has refused to share data, citing privacy concerns. It has promised to keep the app running despite the ban. The Russian communications watchdog told the Interfax news agency Tuesday it was blocking a "significant number" of servers owned by Google and Amazon because it believes that Telegram is using them to circumvent the ban. Dozens of Russian online stores have reported problems with their services Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 what is your personal view on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 1 hour ago, dMog said: what is your personal view on this? U is ask me ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 anyone who wants to give an opinion...you included...i pretty much do not know what to think about it other than it seems to be a lot of pirate sites about to be shut down or at least losing some revenue and just do not know how successful it will be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 14 hours ago, dMog said: anyone who wants to give an opinion...you included...i pretty much do not know what to think about it other than it seems to be a lot of pirate sites about to be shut down or at least losing some revenue and just do not know how successful it will be is hard topic but in russia putin is boss when people try and beat him or fight with him it never end well but i have seen info that russia maybe have firewall like China its not 100% but maybe can happen about pirate sites lots is up and down never can tell what will happen but i can say 100% russia will not let this go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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