The Association for the Protection of Copyright on the Internet (AZAPI) appealed to Roskomnadzor with a request to take action against the American company Facebook due to the distribution of pirated books on Instagram. Write about this “Vedomosti” with reference to the statement of the association.
The information was confirmed by Maksim Ryabyko, a member of the AZAPI board.
So Facebook wanted to punish for refusing to remove links to illegal copies of works. The publication notes that social network users post videos with audiobooks as audio tracks, as well as links to third-party resources.
According to Ryabyko, in the second quarter of this year, Instagram for the first time entered the top 3 sites with the largest number of identified links to illegal copies of books, taking second place (more than three thousand links). Telegram took the first place in the specified period: about 35 thousand illegal copies of books and links to them were identified and deleted in the messenger. In third place is YouTube, there were found 2.4 thousand links.
AZAPI represents the interests of large Russian publishing houses – AST, Eksmo, Alpiny, MIF, Azbuka-Atticus and others.
On September 30, it was reported that Facebook faces a billion dollar fine for repeated failure to remove banned content. The platform may be ordered to pay a fine equal to 1/20 to 1/10 of the company's annual turnover.
