The court for the second time blocked the library "Flibusta"

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The lawyers of the Association for the Protection of Rights on the Internet (AZAPI) have hard work. In June 2015, they secured the blockade of the non-commercial online library Flibusta.net through Roskomnadzor. Now they repeated the procedure and, according to the anti-piracy law, they have already achieved a life-long blocking of the resource . On the decision today announced the press service of the court.

The Roskomnadzor blocking is not technically different from the eternal blocking under the anti-piracy law - except that it can be removed legally, AZAPI CEO Maxim Ryabyko, who represented the interests of the plaintiff-copyright owner - Exmo publishing house , explained .

Now we have to complete the case with the Flibusta.is and Flibusta.me mirrors (they have decided to block them for the first time), then figure out how to remove the Flibusta chatbot in Telegram (Ryabyko says that he convinced Telegram developers to solve the problem). Then repeat the same procedure with hundreds of other libraries on the Internet.

In general, the work will be enough for a long time. Rights holders do not particularly care that access to blocked sites is available through Tor and other means.

At the same time, the owners of Flibusta themselves are not too upset by punitive measures. “From the point of view of the library, this is the highest recognition of merit,” they said after the first blocking last summer.

Approximately the same opinion expressedrecently adviser to the president on the Internet Herman Klimenko. True, he talked about torrent trackers, but the essence does not change: “The law [eternal blocking of websites] works like an advertisement for torrent trackers. Now, if all this was not, no one would know. The funny thing is that all torrent trackers dropped attendance. With music, they practically legalized - they introduced a monthly fee; with books - a huge plan of projects that are legalized. It remains to agree only with the video. The feeling that someone from that side, I do not know who advises them. When the decision is made to permanently lock the domain. It sounds nice and what? Statistics is growing ”

At the moment, over 20 resources are under perpetual ban in Russia. The right holders cannot block its mirrors together with the main violator site.