RAEC has described the key features and provided an indicative list of hundreds of pirated sites.

The Russian Association of Electronic Communications ( RAEC ), which has long and persistently fought against Internet piracy, presented its view on the advertising aspect of this issue. In the published statement of the association it is indicated that the sites, defined as pirated, do not have the right to engage in advertising activities on a par with the rest. In addition, the statement indicates the signs of the pirate site, according to RAEC's own classification, and provides an indicative list of 100 sites that fall under this definition.

RAEC is a non-profit organization uniting the largest players in the Russian Internet industry. It includes such companies as 1C-Bitrix, Google, HeadHunter, Mail.ru, Microsoft, OZON, RU-CENTER, Begun, Kaspersky Lab and other well-known organizations. The industry association organizes various kinds of commissions - on legal issues, information security, web development, etc., and holds industry events and forums.
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One of the initiatives promoted by RAEC is intersectoral cooperation with the support and participation of the state in order to block the sources of income of pirated websites.

In its appeal, the association indicates that the sites that host copyright objects without a license, operate illegally, and therefore they do not have the right to be participants in the advertising market, they must be excluded from the turnover of payment services.

RAEC takes upon itself the hard work of examining the site for its belonging to a shameful pirate cohort, and in its statement gives concrete indications of this regrettable fact:

• allocation of copyright objects without a license
• lack of contact information of the site owner
• the absence of the form of appeal holders for the removal of illegal content
• distribution of content in the form of torrent files
• distribution of knowingly illegal content, such as screen copies of films

The purpose of the appeal is to get advertisers and advertising agencies to boycott such sites.

In order not to be unsubstantiated, the association provides an indicative list of the hundreds of sites found, which by all indications fall under the definition of “pirated”.



I would like to thank the association for the work done on the collection and sorting of information. This is one of those really rare cases where the work of a human rights organization directly benefits ordinary members of the Internet community.