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n January 25, deputies of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications (IT Committee) introduced a bill to the State Duma that should speed up the blocking of "mirror" sites - that is, copies of already blocked pirate sites.

According to the law, the denmark whatsapp number database decision to recognize websites as copies of blocked resources for copyright infringement, in accordance with Article 15.6-1 of Law No. 149 "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection", is made by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, after which it is sent to Roskomnadzor.

discovered, the Ministry of Digital Development must make a decision within 24 hours to recognize the site as a copy of a previously blocked resource.

The press service of the Ministry of Digital Development told a ComNews correspondent that this procedure - from the moment the application is received to the blocking of mirrors of pirate sites - takes three days, since it goes through several stages of approval.

Roskomnadzor then ensures interaction with hosting providers, telecom operators and search engines within 24 hours, which must restrict access within 24 hours of receiving information from the regulator.

According to Roskomnadzor, in 2022, access to 12 thousand resources was restricted based on such decisions, and in 2023, access to 12.7 thousand resources.

In total, due to failure to remove information distributed in violation of copyright or related rights (Articles 15.2, 15.6, 15.6-1 of Law No. 149-FZ), Roskomnadzor restricted access to 114.9 thousand materials in 2022 and to 228.8 thousand materials in 2023.

According to the agency, resource owners independently deleted 371.3 thousand units of content with such information in 2022, and 856.9 thousand in 2023.

"We propose optimizing the scheme so that Roskomnadzor makes a decision and sends it, which will allow restricting access to the "mirror" within two days, which is much faster," Alexander Khinshtein, Chairman of the State Duma IT Committee, told a ComNews correspondent.

"Roskomnadzor does not object to the legislative initiative aimed at combating pirated content. The mechanism proposed by legislators will allow the agency to independently decide on recognizing resources as copies of sites that violate copyright or related rights and reduce the time for restricting access to them," the Roskomnadzor press service told a ComNews correspondent.

Stanislav Goncharov, head of the Digital Risk Protection Department at Trust LLC (FACCT, a Russian developer of technologies for combating cybercrime, formerly Group-IB), explained that some owners of pirated resources immediately create many "mirrors" for future use, and then switch domains as they are blocked, while some large pirates even have a "dispatch" window where they can show users the current mirror at the moment.

"For the user, a "mirror" site is the same resource with a slightly different domain name. In light of blocking, users have become accustomed to the fact that many pirate services create "mirrors". If the project is large, then they can connect to it either via VPN or search for up-to-date "mirrors", - added Stanislav Goncharov.

In 2018, industry representatives signed an anti-piracy memorandum on cooperation in the field of protecting exclusive rights in the era of digital technology development at the Roskomnadzor platform. According to Roskomnadzor, during its operation, search engines removed over 178 million links to resources with pirated content from their search results.

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