The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that in the near future, the Vkontakte social network would become a completely legal resource, getting rid of pirated content, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
writes . “I’m absolutely sure that in the next year and a half, VKontakte will become an absolutely legal resource,” Zharov said.
The head of the agency also said that despite the fact that Vkontakte was included in the 301st list of the US trade mission as a pirate site, very active work is now being done to exclude the social network from this registry.
“Now the social network owners are actively cooperating with the distribution platform of legal content Pladform, legalizing the traffic of music and movies. In addition, they are negotiating with copyright holders, both domestic and foreign, ”the head of Roskomnadzor commented on the situation.
And today it became known that the administrators of the music public “E: \ music \” were detained in Moscow. As far as it is possible to understand, the owners of the public were detained due to copyright infringement - they placed in open access musical works protected by copyright.
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The creators of the group reported that during the detention the police did not explain the reason to them. The investigator, who came to the cell in the morning, told about this and gave a detailed account of the statistics about the albums posted on the social network and copyright infringement. The investigator asked the detainees for passwords from the accounts for which the entire grid of public E: \ music \ was registered.
UPD. Detention of the VC public administrators turned out to be fake.