Friday, July 5, 2013

The chapter "VKontakte": the fight against piracy has reduced sales of music - the Russian newspaper

Legal selling a number of musical compositions were down after the tracks have been removed from the “VKontakte” at the request of copyright holders. Wrote about it on his page on the social networking site’s founder Pavel Durov.

“That was the case, at least, the two actors are close to us,” – he stressed. According to him, “at a time when” VKontakte “has become the main (if not the only) way to promote your music in the CIS, remove it from the VC has a stronger interest of music makers”.

“I think that the” VKontakte “and producers of music in the near future will find a formula that will allow them to achieve the intended purpose without any prejudice to internet users and musicians,” – said Pavel Durov.

Recall that today became aware of the social network attempts to reach an agreement with the world’s biggest recording studios, resource users can legally listen to recordings of musicians from their catalog.

In June of this year, we recall, the network held a mass deletion of recorded music, initiated by the owners of the rights to the content. Thus, until recently, users of the “VKontakte” independently loaded on a website music tracks and videos, and social network did not cooperate with the owners and representatives of international legal services. At the same time, the administrators “VKontakte” at the request of holders removed pirated content.

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