Began collecting signatures against blocking RuTracker.org

On the website "Petition to the President" and Change.org there are petitions against lifelong blocking of the popular torrent tracker RuTracker.org.

The author of the petition on the “presidential” website, Aleksey Smirnov, is probably one of the volunteers helping the tracker. “You know perfectly well that we have been deleting links for a long time at the request of the copyright holders. Despite the fact that we are criticized for this position, demanding to stop "bending", we delete about 1,500 (!) References every month according to the requirements of the right holders, without any interference from the Roskomnadzor, the Moscow City Court, and not even notifying them about these venerable organizations. At the request of copyright holders, about 4000 hands have been deleted since the beginning of the year. About 6000 more owners have deleted themselves, with the help of their accounts. From the very beginning of Roskomnadzor since the beginning of 2015, we received only 19 letters and 60 (sixty !!) references to distributions, which, of course, were immediately deleted, ”he writes. “We cooperate with copyright holders precisely because we position Rutreker as a non-commercial content library, where you can find rare, but not prohibited, new items, etc. There are more than 1,600,000 active hands on Rutreker. ”

The author believes that blocking the tracker is contrary to national interests: “Does Roskomnadzor understand that not all Russians can afford to buy the necessary software and movies? These are students, pensioners and low-income people who receive beggarly scholarships, pensions and salaries, but do not steal money and do not receive bribes. Moreover, the absolute majority of the material did not violate any rights of the authors. ”
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Many representatives of the IT industry spoke about blocking. Everyone agrees that blocking will not greatly affect the popularization of legal content: RuTracker users will find ways to work around or switch to other torrent trackers.

Against the general background, only the opinion of Marina Surygina, director of the online cinema Tvzavr.ru, is dissonant: “Certainly, the legal content market will gain from blocking. The mere fact of closing the largest torrent tracker and the absence of indignation from its audience is a good incentive for people to switch to the consumption of legal content. ” However, the words of Mrs. Surygina look like outright trolling.

Even on the pages of the state newspaper Izvestia , philosopher Alexander Lyusy spoke out against blocking: “The situation’s peculiarity is given to the fact that a torrent with a huge amount of important information for the scientific world was closed due to some kind of detective story. Whether the publisher Eksmo wanted this or not, but killing free reading, went down in history as Salieri, who killed Mozart. ”