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Russian Internet Firms Blame Users for Piracy

By james_fudge

Russia's leading Internet companies are asking the government to target users committing piracy and not the providers that give them the bandwidth or services. Five companies including Yandex and Google Russia, believe that individuals should "take more responsibility for what they are uploading" and ultimately be held responsible for it. Companies say that monitoring everything that is uploaded is an impossible task. While the companies are talking about piracy, what they really mean is users sharing content that might violate a copyright like videos uploaded to YouTube.

"The problem of responsibility for sharing copyrighted content isn't new," Ekaterina Fadeeva, director of Yandex.ru's legal department, told RT. "As it hasn't been decided on the legislative level, the courts have become decisive in such cases. But that's not the right path." Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).