The heirs-owners returned the work of the Strugatsky brothers to free access

The heirs of the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky returned all the texts of their books to the official website dedicated to the work of science fiction writers, and also refused to attempt to remove their works from free access to other sites. This was announced by the son of Boris Natanovich - Andrey Strugatsky on his Facebook page.

In one old song it was sung: “And in the struggle with the green serpent, the serpent wins!”.
That's the same with us: we tried to fight piracy on the Internet, but alas, piracy won! Law-abiding sites fulfilled our request to remove the books of the Strugatsky from free access, but, unfortunately, there are still myriad resources of completely unlawful, and, alas, it is absolutely impossible to overcome them ...
So let me announce the following verdict:
By the decision of Maria Arkadyevna and Andrey Borisovich Strugatsky, the texts of the ABS are returned to free access on the official website of the Strugatsky brothers.

The works of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were withdrawn from free access on the official website by their heirs, Andrey Borisovich and Maria Arkadyevna Strugatsky, in May 2014.
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Here we close access to the full texts, first of all, precisely out of respect [...] for the real admirers and connoisseurs of the Strugatskys, who understand what intellectual work is and what intellectual property is. It is unfair when some people pay for the book, while others take it for free.

At the same time, the children of the writers began to struggle with pirated copies of works on the Internet in the ABS, which they lost.

After the death of Arkady, Boris Strugatsky remained the sole owner of their joint works. The younger of the brothers never spoke out against the free distribution of his books with Arkady, but in 2008 he signed a petition to tighten copyright enforcement in Russia, which was sent to the country's president. After his death (he died on November 19, 2012), Boris Strugatsky did not leave clear instructions on how to deal with his legacy, which gave his son and niece a moral right to try to stop their free distribution of books with her brother.

The restoration of free access to files on the Strugatsky website is extremely important for fans, since, as Boris Strugatsky himself admitted, the texts posted there were canonical: