Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law blocking copies of the sites where he has placed the content with copyright infringement. Document posted Saturday on the portal of legal information.
The law defines the procedure for restricting access to the “mirrors” pirate sites. In case of receipt of discovery information on the Internet copies of blocked sites to the Ministry of communications during the day “takes a motivated decision on the recognition of site is a copy of the blocked site”, sends it in Russian and English to the owner of the mirror, and in Roskomnadzor.
According to the law, operators will have within days from the moment of receiving them from the appropriate Roskomnadzor the requirement to restrict access to copies of the blocked website.
Besides, after the law came into force, the search engines will be required to exclude blocked “the mirror” from the search results.
The Federal law was adopted by the State Duma on 23 June and approved by the Federation Council on June 28. The law shall enter into force on 1 October 2017.