Juliana Grebennikova. Access to more than 280 sites-the pirates is limited in Russia by almost 190 applications of the right holders after the adoption of the copyright law, told reporters on Thursday the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov.

He clarified that the mechanism of protection of the exclusive rights of the right holders (so-called anti-piracy law) entered into force on 1 August 2013. He allowed the right holders to combat illegal distribution of their movies on the Internet.

"so, from August 1, 2013 Roskomnadzor received 189 applications of the right holders, of them after the first of may 2015 - 143. Note that now access is restricted to 282 sites-infringers of copyright and related rights ", - said Zharov.

He noted that among similar Internet addresses, for example, the famous online library flibusta. Net and loveread. Ws, attendance each of which is more than 3, 6 million people per month

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