‘Blocking Pirate Sites is Not Enough, Russia Should Shut Them Down’

[Matrix]

Russia has implemented a wide variety of anti-piracy measures in recent years. Thousands of copyright infringing sites have been blocked and even 'unauthorized' VPNs and proxies are outlawed. However, according to the IIPA, which includes the MPAA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, this is not enough.

There can be little doubt that Russia has some of the most agressive anti-piracy policies in the world.

After it became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2012, the country made several promises to protect creators’ rights and take action against infringing websites.

In the years that followed, processes for website takedown policies were streamlined, and more recently Russia’s telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor issued ISP blockades against thousands of pirate sites.

To ensure that it wouldn’t be easy to circumvent these blockades, Russia’s Government also implemented a law that outlaws all VPNs and anonymizers that bypass site blocking measures. Companies which violate this, risk a $12,000 fine.

To tighten things up even further, search engines are also prohibited from linking to blocked pirate sites and unauthorized VPNs and anonymizers.

These are rather tough measures, especially compared to the United States where site blocking is still a no-go. Still, a coalition of prominent rightsholder groups, including the RIAA and MPAA, is still not happy.

The groups are united in the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) which asked to testify during today’s US Trade Representative hearing on the implementation of Russia’s WTO Commitments.

In its application, IIPA recognizes the progress made thus far, but these recent changes are not enough. The rightsholder groups tell the US Government that they would like Russia’s actions to have an impact on Americans as well.

“Unfortunately, in recent years, these new procedures and processes have been directed only at online piracy by users within Russia. The result has been a substantial and persistent international copyright piracy problem of illegal sites and services accessed by users outside of Russia,” the IIPA writes.

“The Russian Government needs to engage in enforcement targeting illegal sites and streaming services that operate in Russia, even if the users are abroad.”

While Russian interference over the Internet is not always appreciated, in this case, it would be welcomed. And since the Russian Government can’t force US ISPs to start blocking, they will have to go after thousands of sites directly.

The IIPA would like to see more criminal investigations and prosecutions of pirate site operators, mentioning Rapidgator, Rutracker, vKontakte, and Sci-Hub as persistent offenders.

“In short, more enforcement is needed, targeting these and the myriad of other infringing websites. Proper enforcement actions would include steps to keep infringing sites down and taking criminal enforcement actions against the owners and operators of these sites that are causing significant economic harm to rights holders,” the IIPA writes.

There is no denying that there are pirate sites operating from Russia. However, considering Russia’s recent progress, it would be no surprise if Putin and his comrades pointed the finger right back at the US.

They only have to use The Pirate Bay as an example. The world’s most ‘notorious’ pirate site has been operating freely from a US-controlled .org domain, using the caching services of the US company Cloudflare, while earning most of its revenue from entirely unblocked American visitors.

 

A copy of the IIPA’s full letter, sent to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, is available here (pdf).

 

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[knowledge-Spammer]

Putin and his comrades pointed the finger right back at the US ✔️

[straycat19]

2 hours ago, knowledge said:

Putin and his comrades pointed the finger right back at the US ✔️

 

When you point a finger at someone you point three back at yourself, so yeah, Putin got it right.

[knowledge-Spammer]

8 hours ago, straycat19 said:

 

When you point a finger at someone you point three back at yourself, so yeah, Putin got it right.

no be mad its not just russia its all places i am sure

They only have to use The Pirate Bay as an example. The world’s most ‘notorious’ pirate site has been operating freely from a US-controlled .org domain, using the caching services of the US company Cloudflare, while earning most of its revenue from entirely unblocked American visitors.

who own Pirate Bay ?

[steven36]

On 10/5/2018 at 7:34 AM, knowledge said:

They only have to use The Pirate Bay as an example. The world’s most ‘notorious’ pirate site has been operating freely from a US-controlled .org domain, using the caching services of the US company Cloudflare, while earning most of its revenue from entirely unblocked American visitors.

who own Pirate Bay ?

TPB uses two sites to block it's real location  they dont know were its hosted at anymore  let alone  who owns it now

 

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ThePirateBay.org – Unknown.  Available in 35 languages, ThePirateBay.org (TPB) is one  of the largest BitTorrent websites with a global Alexa rank of 136, and a local rank of 81 in  the U.S.

The hosting location of the website is kept hidden by two intermediaries: first by Cloudflare’s reverse proxy service and then by a system located at the hosting provider Shinjiru  Technology in Malaysia.

 

 

Its not easy  to shut sites down as it is to block them as there too much bullet proof hosting out there now witch makes it harder to shut them down  even  TPB goes down on the clearnet  it works just fine on the dark net.

 

This what MPPA knows about Rutracker

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Rutracker.org – Russia. This BitTorrent portal was launched in 2010 in response to the takedown of Torrent.ru by the Russian criminal authorities. Rutracker.org is a BitTorrent  indexing website with 13.9 million registered users and 1.5 million active torrents. It is one of the world’s most visited websites, with a global Alexa ranking of 395, and a local rank of  70 in Russia. Rutracker.org had 14.72 million worldwide unique visitors in July 2018  according SimilarWeb data. The site is hosted in Russia by Dreamtorrent Corp., a Seychelles  company that is also believed to be the owner of the site. The site has been subject to  blocking orders by the Moscow City Court and in Portugal.