Entered into force the law on online-cinemas
In Russia came into force a law the bill on the regulation of audiovisual services, which includes online theaters.
This was reported on the website of Roskomnadzor.
President Vladimir Putin approved a bill in early may. Changes were made to the Federal law “On information, information technologies and about information protection” and certain legislative acts.
According to the document, the owners of the online cinema is prohibited to disseminate information, which “contain public calls to terrorist activity or publicly justifying terrorism”.
The law prohibits foreigners from owning more than 20% of the services, whose daily audience throughout the month, is over 100 thousand users across Russia and more than 20 thousand — in the same region. Online movie theaters must be registered in the registry of Roscomnadzor.
In the message of Roskomnadzor noted that the Agency create and maintain a registry of audiovisual services, approve the method of determining the number of users of information resources in the day and requests from the owner. In case of violation of Roskomnadzor will require to eliminate them, and in the case of repeated violations of the law or failure to comply after the first violation, the Agency will go to court with a request to restrict access to audio-visual service should be the message.