Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Rutracker.org dies but does not surrender – Express-News

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26.01 | 14:13

The popular torrent tracker RuTracker.org today became available to subscribers of certain service providers.

On the blocking of Internet resource is already reported in the press service of “VimpelCom” ( “Beeline” brand). Similar reports came from “Megaphone” and “Acad».

«This resource is blocked by the decision of state authorities of the Russian Federation.” This message appears when you try to visit the site the torrent tracker subscribers of these operators.

About blocking resource spokesman for the company “Rostelecom” Andrey Polyakov: “We received a discharge from the Unified Register of banned information and started blocking.”

On Monday, Roskomnadzor introduced RuTracker.org the registry copyright infringers. Relevant information is available in the universal service check to restrict access to websites and / or pages. Limitation introduced on a permanent basis, that is, “life».

As you know, RuTracker.org is the largest torrent tracker Runet. According to the counter LiveInternet, in December, the total number of unique visitors reached more than 14 million people. A Statistics Similarweb noted in December, nearly 78 million page views.

Recall that the December 4, 2015 the Moscow City Court ruled on the joint blocking RuTracker.org suit the publishing house “Eksmo” and “SBA Production “. The reason for this action are: a novel by Victor Pelevin “caretaker” and songs Russian rapper Guf – “Login”, “enjoy”, “Calm,” “On the floor”, “today or tomorrow”, “Our philosophy”, “The daily routine “,” Insomnia “,” Ballad “,” My demons ».

A court decision lifelong blocking came into force on 22 January, and now Roskomnadzor had to make a portal in the register of banned sites and notify the provider.

RuTracker.org history began in 2004. However, if this service was called torrents.ru. According to « Izvestia », the founder of the project was Yegor Minin – at that time the administrator (later – the deputy director) Moscow ISP Ultranet (JSC “Lan-Telecom”) and creator of the popular 2000s portal on home networks Homenetworks.ru.

Working administrator ISP, Minin said that by connecting to the house-networks, users have begun to actively share information within it, because the Internet connection was slow, and the traffic – very expensive .

In most cases as an intermediary between users acted server provider. Some users to upload files to it, and other downloads (via FTP).

At the same time providers have problems with copyright to the content. In an interview in 2002 Minin said that for Ultranet found another solution: the company has allowed users to share information with each other directly – bypassing your server (used by the program «DC ++» – a precursor torrents). In 2002, within the network each month passed about 3 TB of data.

Also, Minin tried on their networks to deploy file-sharing system similar to the then popular Napster (the American service was closed in the early 2000s for copyright infringement) – but it is popular with customers did not use.

However, in 2004, when Russia began to develop broadband Internet access, Minin created a torrent tracker torrents.ru.

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