[governance] WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement

[Pranesh Prakash]

Summary of Russia's verbal intervention:

According to some of the studies included in doc WIPO/ACE/7/5,
infringing content is responsible for more than 1/4 of online traffic.
While some of Dr. Cliff's (Chatham House) criticism of those numbers are
legitimate, it remains an important problem, especially "torrent
trackers". Law enforcement agencies in Russia identify between 6000 -
7000 illegal file sharing sites each year and it has become a game of
whack-a-mole as new services sprout up on a daily basis. This situation
is difficult both for rightsholders and consumers because there are too
many of those services to be able to track them and they shift their
servers constantly. There are roughly 30,000 trackers and only a few of
them have been closed because there are international private law and
other judicial problems, and so far, no effective mechanism to solve
problem has been identified and it remains difficult to build
cooperation between states on those issues. This is why the Russian
delegation proposes to undertake a series of studies to determine the
extent of the problem, look at existing models to fight illegal file
sharing, the different practices among member States to prosecute
"torrent trackers". To get achieve those objectives, we need to to
compare statistics of online crime in different jurisdictions, the
number of prosecutions on those issues in different member-states etc.
One of the outcomes of this study should give us an idea of 'how
Governments can regulate the relationships between stakeholders
disseminating information over the Internet.'


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Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283

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