the Head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov sure that major Russian torrent trackers, most likely, will be forever locked in 2016 and, having lost most of the visitors, will cease to exist, according to RBC. Zharov recalled that the 15 most popular torrent trackers already on the list for eternal lock, in this case, the decision has been appealed.

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the Head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov sure that major Russian torrent trackers, most likely, will be forever locked in 2016 and, having lost most of the visitors, will cease to exist, according to RBC. Zharov recalled that the 15 most popular torrent trackers already on the list for eternal lock, in this case, the decision has been appealed.

"My prediction is that in 2016 they will be blocked, and since, according to statistics, 95% of people don't use tools to bypass the blocking, the traffic of these resources will decline significantly", — said the head of Roskomnadzor.

Zharov said that it is necessary to ensure that the audience is not looking for ways to bypass locks, and traveled on legitimate Internet resources. The official stressed that "the primary task for the industry is the development of a culture of legal content consumption".

since may 1, after the entry into force of the anti-piracy amendments to the Russian legislation, Roskomnadzor has received 302 determination of the court on preliminary interim measures. According to Zharova, mainly resources voluntarily remove pirated content, but in 133 cases, the case went to trial and in the majority of cases (122) rights holders, the courts won. Today completely blocked 1433 unique pages 505 and pirated resources, said the head of Roskomnadzor.

Recall that November 9, 2015 the court made the decision to block the site RuTracker.org. The decision was rendered on the claim of publishing house "Eksmo". The resource had to be blocked on 9 December, but on December 7 the judgment appealed against "Moskomsporta". On 18 December it became known that the court of appeal refused to accept.

Until the RuTracker.org the court decided for life lock Pleer.com (on the claim of Universal Music), and for the first time by a court decision the resource was locked forever in October. Then under the claim about protection of exclusive rights "Bazelevs distribution" were blocked Rutor.org, Bobfilm.net, Kinozal.tv, Tushkan.net, Tvserial-online.net and six more sites.