"An open letter of Russian and Russian-speaking writers" to President Medvedev about the need to stop the "pirated" distribution of the texts of books

LiveJournal is collecting signatures : many, many writers turn to Medvedev with a request to completely stop "the distribution of pirated copies of books in illegal online libraries." The number of signatures exceeded one hundred and fifty and includes the names of the first value. Such events did not happen for a long time in the sphere of right trade and copyright.

_{As an example, I will point out two popular science fiction writers: Nick Perumov announced the signing of this letter , and also announced Lukyanenko . Lukyanenko is interested in postscript and the course of comments from bloggers. Perumov, on the other hand, simply turned off the comments - obviously, he foresaw the unpopularity of the desired measure among readers.}

The beginning of the letter makes it possible to confidently conclude that the writing community was agitated by the article “ Paper did not tolerate ” from the newspaper “Kommersant”, No. 42 / P (4583) of March 14, 2011, which outlined the collapse of those participants in traditional publishing who could not switch to electronic sales, as well as estimates from the mouth of the financial director of the ACT publishing group (Mr. Oleg Bartenev), according to which at least 95% of downloads on the Runet are pirated products (which amount in money is about $ 7-8 million per year), and in the absence of n lytic will to combat piracy market of electronic sales will be completely illegal, and printed books market could fall by 30-40% in the next three to four years.
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Of particular interest in the letter is the subsection "The consequences of impunity of network pirates".