Ukraine proposes to prohibit by law to close sites with illegal content

The story about closing the popular Ex.ua file sharing service that has been sensational for the past few weeks will most likely cause a curious precedent that, hopefully, the impossibility of closing entire Internet services in Ukraine due to unlicensed content .

Some authoritative sources in the Ukrainian press claim that the youngest son of the current Ukrainian president had not the last impact on ex.ua's return to life. The mention of this fact is given here because today a bill on amending the law “On Telecommunications” was submitted to the Ukrainian parliament by a well-known deputy from the ruling party. The essence of the changes lies in two points:

• If unlicensed material is detected on the Internet service (website), then it is prescribed to “delete exactly identified content” without closing the service itself.
• “Removal of accurately identified Internet content or blocking access to it is possible only by a court decision”
  

Well, one cannot but admit that such an initiative of the Ukrainian parliament is quite attractive for Internet users. Naturally, while we are talking only about the draft law, before the adoption of which, in fact, much can happen, including the more insistent demands of the international financial structures with which the Ukrainian government cooperates, about following European copyright standards, such as the notorious ACTA agreement.

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