Top 15 Sites Will Be Banned
This is nothing new, countries are blocking torrent sites every time, but Russia will ban the countries most used torrent websites. Russia has never been known to have a strong law enforcement on piracy, which is why it is surprising that the country will ban about 15 most used torrent sites. Roscomnadzor are predicting 95% efficiency at fighting piracy after the ban has come into effect.
The watchdog firm Roscomnadzor, asked “The pressing question: why do you need the torrents?”.
Назрел вопрос: для чего вам нужны торренты?
— Роскомнадзор (@roscomnadzor) December 23, 2015
About 37% of the users said they torrent because “I do not want to pay”, 36% said they use for “other reasons”, 17% of the users did not know where to buy the products and remaining 10% said they don’t use torrents.
