Russian copyright holders and Internet companies this year will sign a new anti-piracy memorandum. In the updated version of the document, there will be a measure to remove pirated sites from search results, in which the number of links containing illegal copies of films and TV series on one domain will exceed 100.

The new version of the memorandum also provides for the fight against domain splices, which are used to return Internet pages to the same search positions from which they were removed. In this case, the measures imply protection mechanisms against the deletion of legitimate sites from the issuance.

The action of the document is proposed to be extended not only to audiovisual content but also to other intellectual property, in addition to photographs. The new agreement will be valid for three years.

The first version of the anti-piracy memorandum was signed on November 1, 2018 by Yandex, VK Group (formerly Mail.ru Group) and Rambler Group. According to the Media Communications Union, over 31 million links with pirated content have been removed from search results in three years of the document's validity.

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