Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Who will answer for crimes on the Internet?

Technical capabilities of the XXI century has long been possible to detect the physical location of a "virtual" copyright infringers. The only question is how to procedurally to bring him to account? Today, the Internet scored the various information and offers unprecedented opportunities for visitors: you can download and upload anything you want, and not always the content of injected information is legitimate. At least in runet and Uanet. Do not you ever wondered why, for example, on Facebook you can not view on-line kinonovinku as on the social networking site vKontakte? The fact that the U.S. copyright infringement actually punishable by law. We, in Ukraine, despite the relatively "decent" copyright law, such violations remain unaddressed. All this is due to the fact that our law enforcement agencies do not want to notice the presence of the Internet in the country, and argue that the supposedly almost impossible to determine the owner of the site, domain name and hosting company. That is, find the culprit. This statement is not entirely untrue. "Judicial and legal newspaper decided to investigate what happens to the legal regulation of the Internet, and someone in the network responsible for the offense. Rambler responsible for those who tamed the easiest, of course, the responsibility to bring an ISP or hosting company - a service to provide computing power to the physical location information on a server residing in the network. So, not just company-holders have tried, for example, to prosecute the same Rambler, on a site which is "unknown" put other people's videos and songs without legal justification. Because the identity of "unknown" was virtually impossible, or rather, is simply laziness, holders appealed to the court against the LLC "Rambler Internet Holding. Rambler, of course, the court objected to the claim, explaining his reasons that the actual deployment was carried out not by him, and the user, registered in the system. Accordingly, the site has provided technical capability to post information that is hosting. Indeed servants of Themis did not just come to the conclusion that neither the provider or hosting company, are not responsible for the content of their site content. On this basis the court and won Masterhost, provides space for the popular site zaycev.net, on which were placed the disputed works. Moreover, Masterhost was not, for example, neither the administrator nor the site owner. The site belongs to the same rambler.ru Rambler. Hence, LLC "Rambler Internet Holding" has the right to remove content and block access to specific users, while as a hosting provider does not have any access to the client site. Therefore, in the case where the defendant made a Rambler, the court sided with the plaintiff. If you go to a site like www.rambler.ru and vkontacte.ru, then it can detect user agreement. End User License Agreement, posted on the Rambler, said that he provides the user with access to a variety of materials placed on its website. As a result, the court found the offense proved in the form of communication to the public illegally posted content. With regard to the site vkontacte.ru, then owners of the site itself in time to secure, providing the user agreement, which automatically anyone agrees to become a member of the grand community vKontakte that the site is not responsible for the content hosted users. Recent themselves must understand that it is impossible to violate the rights of third parties. How do I determine who owns the site hosted by the Internet, the web hosting providers. The site has IP-address from the range allocated to your hosting company. This address can be both in Ukraine and Russia, and Europe, but mostly in the U.S., where computing power is cheapest. By itself, the site shines IP-host, rather than its owner. Decent company, of course, enter into an agreement to provide hosting services. This agreement and demonstrate who is the owner of the site. Too decent companies have their own server, IP which will tell you about other sites that are on this server. To find out who the owner of the domain, you need to take advantage of Whois. Scoring in the search box domain name, you can find out information about the person who is registered to a domain name. The truth in this section called Registrant, usually write anyone. And the "registrant" may take advantage of "Private person", ie conceal information about themselves. The most important information that can be detected in the point Name Servers or DNS server. This specifies the information about hosting companies on the server where the site is located. Further, only need to enter the site host, find contacts and make a complaint about a particular site. Web hosting company keeps a log of connections in the administrative area site. He knows who goes there and under which IP-address. Strongly interested citizen or organization in the face of some of the superstructure can make hosting company to provide information about those who have the right to administer the site. You can also find a infringer by reference to the company registrar. Information about this organization is contained in paragraph Organozation Services Whois. There is usually indicated, even all the contact details of such a company, as well as the date of registration and expiration domain. The minimum term of domain name registration - one year. Domain as opposed to hosting is always recorded on a specific IP-address. Therefore, we can come to the registrar company domain name and request to provide information about to whom the domain registered. Or (if there is evidence that the site is hosted illegal content) require the registrar to terminate the right to use the domain name registered to the offender. Impossible So, we have identified a site owner or user, if a site owner or admin allegedly not involved in moderation, as stated in writing on the site. In this case, the offender may be charged with administrative, criminal or civil liability for violation of that copyright. Or for pornography, for example. Responsibility can come in the form of sanctions under the Criminal Code, Administrative Code, the Law on Protection of Copyright and Related Rights. " The latter provides, in particular, such rights to the injured party (the one whose copyright has been infringed): to demand recognition and renewal of their rights, including to prohibit actions that violate copyright or threatened breach thereof, apply to the court for the resumption of the broken rights and to stop the actions that violate copyright law or pose a threat to their violations, to sue for compensation for moral damages, to sue for damages, including lost profits, or collection of income received by the infringer as a result of a breach of copyright, or compensation; demand, including the courts, media data of violations of copyright and (or) related rights, and judicial decisions concerning these violations. In the process of protection may also require disclosure of information about third parties which participated in the violation of the rights of the injured party. Such a right is given to art. 52 of the Law "On Copyright and Related Rights". That is, if the police failed to find a hosting provider, you can split the grant the website owner. Court as a result of the consideration shall have the right to decide the solution not only for reimbursement of funds, but also the prohibition to continue committing crimes. That is, we can ensure that the site at the time, or permanently closed down. Typically, law enforcement agencies are turning to hosting companies, demanding the closure of the site and to the registrar of the domain name with the demand to ban the use of the domain. It would be the desire and means there will always be. Foreign experience opened the first criminal case of the user "VKontakte" Last week in the Russian Federation was first instituted criminal proceedings against the user's site facebook, illegal to host the page works and phonograms musical artists, the press service of the Interior Ministry. The Office of "K" the Russian Interior Ministry asked the representative of the Company "firm" Nikitin, who reported that the social network Vkontakte "is illegal distribution of audio, exclusive rights belong to the firm. The audit, conducted by experts of the Office" K ", it emerged that one of the most active users, the illegal reproduction and making available to the public of musical works, is a 26-year-old resident of Moscow. On your personal page, he posted 18 audio-known Russian music group, the number of downloads for other people amounted to over 200,000. from the actions of only one offender holder has suffered damages in lost profits of $ 108 thousand. As a result, criminal proceedings were instituted on the grounds of a crime under Art. 146 of the Criminal Code ("Violation of copyright and related rights"). offender faces up to 6 years imprisonment.

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