12th of July, 2011. Some 10 or so authors, mostly writers, sent search engine Yandex, biggest in Russia and Russian speaking infosphere, a letter. It “appeals to the leadership of the company “Yandex” with a request to join the campaign for the protection of copyrights in RuNet.”

It encourages Yandex to take example from Google, world’s biggest search engine, stating that “successfully used international practices to combat the proliferation of unlicensed pirate resource content is removal of pirate websites from the search pages, based on statements by the copyright holder. This mechanism is used today by «Google»”.

The letter stirred some emotion in the blogging society as usual do any moves to fight piracy or to relieve norms restricting free exchange of information. Some two hundred posts were put down the thread, discussing topics like Russian legal state of copyrights, personalities of those signed as well as their literary skills and masterpieces published (and copyrighted, if it matters).

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http://www.eksmo.ru/news/publishers/1295798/