A Russian visitor faces a sentence of six years imprisonment for having posted on a social network eighteen songs from his favorite band, reported, Thursday, January 20, several media. The surfer of 26 years, social network user V Kontakte, considered the Russian Facebook, is accused of violation of intellectual property rights of a music group, said the television channel NTV, without specifying which group it was.The music was illegally downloaded more than two hundred thousand times, said on NTV a spokesman for the police department in charge of cyber crimes, Larisa Zhukova. This represents a loss of 108 000 rubles (about 2700 euros), she said. The user "was not arrested and will probably not be put in jail," said a police source, however, the business daily Vedomosti.
V Kontakte had already been sued by a record company, but the judge considered that the site was not responsible for content posted by its users, according to NTV. CONVENTIONS nineteenth-century The Russian government recently reaffirmed its commitment to enforcing intellectual property rights.
The police have launched several operations around the country against the many merchants who sell pirated DVDs and CDs. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, however, stressed Thursday that the task was not easy. He noted that the agreements currently in force dated from the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth and were unsuitable for Internet development.
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