Shouts From Down Under

Napster clones. Avast ye pirates!

Interesting link Direct Messaged to me on Twitter.

Translated from the site:
http://www.chronicle.pro/russia/internet/ssha-poschitali-rutreker-menee-piratski...

According to the document, published on February 12, after the entry into force of the anti-piracy law in Russia, local authorities began to apply different sanctions in relation to the site Rutracker.org. If their results tracker stops distribute illegal content, it can be excluded from the list of pirated resources the U.S. Trade Representative.

Site remains in the list, but we will consider the possibility of changing its status in 2014, the U.S. Mission godu.Torgovoe

Russia's second largest site in the "pirate" registry is a social network "VKontakte". She first came to him in 2011, and the U.S. government has no plans to revise its attitude towards it.

Despite the fact that social networks are mostly beneficial purposes, the business model of this project includes the possibility of unauthorized copying and distribution or streaming music through the site itself and the associated mobile prilozheniya.Torgovoe U.S. Mission

The list also contains large file store or trackers from China, Sweden, Poland, Canada, the UK, the Czech Republic and two from Ukraine portal: Ex.ua and Extratorrent.cc.

U.S. Trade Representative, citing research Alexa.com, notes that as of January 2014 Rutracker.org is the 13th most popular site in Russia and 240th in the world.

"Anti-piracy" law came into force on 1 August 2013. It allows holders to block sites with illegal content. All such cases considering the Moscow City Court. At the time of writing, the sanctions apply only to video: music, photos and software you plan to add later. "Rutrekere" repeatedly appeared among the resources that are blocked under the new law.

In 2013, "VKontakte" made ​​several attempts to get rid of illegal content. In June, at the initiative of major Western labels of social networks have been removed popular tracks and reload them blocked by the resource itself. A December 16 "VKontakte" announced its plans to legalize music videos Russian stars.

I wonder if any book I write will every be the subject of piracy laws and illegal plagiarism (hang on, there's no legal plagiarism is there)

Well, I don't think I'll lose much sleep tonight worrying over it.

Oh, and Napster? You don't know what Napster was? That's good because that means you are young, innocent, good people, yes such nice people.

Sparky