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The court
responded to a complaint from Timur Bekmambetov's Bazelevs.
A Moscow city court has
permanently shut down 11 Russian web sites with pirated content, reacting
to a complaint from Bazelevs Distribution, the distribution wing of Timur
Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs.
The ruling creates a precedent
for permanently closing down pirated web sites.
"This ruling is giving us
optimism," Vladislav Momdzhyan, Bazelevs Distribution's general
director, told The Hollywood Reporter. "It was important for us to
create a precedent. A regulation allowing courts to permanently shut down web sites
was enacted quite recently, and we needed to test it."
Amendments to Russia's copyright
law, allowing courts to permanently shut down web sites for repeated copyright
violations, came into force on May 1, 2015 and were expected to improve legislation adopted two years before.
Among the web sites which were
shut down by the court's decision are rutor.org, which had a monthly audience
of 23.2 million users, according to the communications
watchdog Roskomnadzor. Kinozal.tv (19 million monthly users) and
bobfilm.net (14.5 million monthly users) were also shuttered.
According to Momdzhyan, the
company has normally been able to settle all issues related to illegitimate
distribution of its content before filing a lawsuit.
"[But] this case concerned
the most blatant offenders who have repeatedly refused to react to our
inquiries," he explained.
"We are glad that now we
have an instrument that helps to make the fight [against online piracy] more
effective."
The Hollywood Reporter by Vladimir Kozlov 10/15/2015
7:13am PDT
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