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Video YouTube may leave Russia. This will be the case if the state Duma will adopt a bill restricting the activities of online cinemas, according to “Kommersant”, citing the conclusion of the legal Committee Mediacommunications Union.
Dthe document contains a proposal to limit (as in the case with the media) to 20 % foreign participation in the organization of audiovisual services with attendance of over 100 thousand people per month. Under this definition, qualifies as popular worldwide broadcasts, owned by the American company Google. If the bill is approved, the company will have to create additional infrastructure or to place your content on foreign servers. In this scenario, the path from the server to the subscriber device user will be much longer and will require much greater cost to the operators. It is noted that YouTube accounted for over 30% of the total consumption of traffic of the Russian Internet users.
In the legal Committee Mediacommunications Union believe that the bill limits competition and focuses on the benefits of individual market participants.
the Union, there is disagreement about the proposed amendments. So, on their adoption insists “Gazprom-media” and “STS Media” – they initiated the bill immediately after its release in Russia, said us online cinema Netflix. Categorically against this idea – MTS and VimpelCom, they insist that the draft is imperfect, largely controversial, and insist on broad public debate on this issue.
In Mediacommunications Union declined to comment in “Gazprom-media” and “STS Media” has not responded to the request to “Kommersant”.
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