The audience of pirate sites for the year decreased by 130 million people. Almost all users switched to their mirrors.

In 2018, 370 pirate sites and 1.5 thousand of their mirrors were blocked in Russia. Most often, requirements for

The blocking of sites and their mirrors is directed by TNT, TV-3 and Friday channels, as well as Warner Bros.

The method of WebKontrol research is not clear. It is not clear whether a person is considered to be a user only with a Russian IP address or from other countries, whether users are considered as unique visitors to sites or just visiting pages.

According to the study, before the lockdown onterritory of Russia in February 2018, traffic to the Kinogb.club website was 26.6 million users per month, and after blocking - about 53 thousand monthly. The active monthly audience of the Kinoly.ru resource, blocked in October 2018, was 8.5 million users.

After blocking Kinoly.ru, all users switched to resource mirrors, which currently have at least four. Attendance of the largest exceeds 2.8 million users per month.

In 2017, in Russia entered into forcethe law on blocking mirrors of pirated sites without a court decision. Now the government is also developing a bill that obliges search engines to remove links to pirated sites.