Yandex company signed Memorandum, Determining measures to combat pirated content in an extrajudicial manner. In contrast to the previous agreement, the new memorandum provides not only removal from the search for individual pages with pirated content, but also a complete removal from the issuance of entire domains, which in the registry has accumulated more than 100 references to illegally placed content.
A similar measure is aimed at combating pirate sites, bypassing the methods of blocking in search engines through the generation of new pages or subdomains. At the same time, the removal from the issuance of entire sites will not be distributed to the media, search engines, social networks, sites from the registries of the organizers of information distribution and other resources, specially not aimed at the distribution of illegal content.
From changes in the new edition of the memorandum also marks the expansion of its distribution to all objects of intellectual property, except for photographs, which will remove from search results not only to video links, but also references to musical, artistic and literary works.
New requirements will begin to act after the adoption and entry into force of the law enforcing the position of the Memorandum. Before the entry into force of the law, the past edition of the Memorandum will be valid, which is extended until September 1, 2022. For three years, more than 40 million references to pirate content were removed by the old edition of the search issuance.
The links to be exceeded from the search results are accumulated in a special register supported by the organization “ Media Communication Union “. Of those who are not associated with media projects, the Memorandum also signed Rambler (no longer considered as a separate search engine, as the recently uses Yandex technology) and Mail.Ru Group (VK). Among the memorandums of Media Industry – Gazprom-Media, VGTRK, Channel One, CTC Media, Sberristeiniment (OKKO, Sbergames, Salvischuk), National Media Group, Apkit (Cinema and Television Production Association), Aviv (Internet Video Association), Kinopoisk, Rofa.