According to the Press Service of the Financial Police of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Financial Police has initiated a criminal proceedings against the “Torrent” Internet Resource on dissemination of unauthorized copies of original software, audio and video materials.

As it was informed earlier, Mr. Sergey Pavlovskiy, President of the Association for Intellectual Property Protection, appealed on July 19, 2009 to the Financial Police to take measures regarding the owner of the “Torrent” Internet Resource.

According to this appeal, the website is involved in dissemination of pirated production, that leads to the violation of holders’ legal rights, including representatives’ rights of the Association. It also causes damage to right owners and the State, as long as there are unpaid duties and taxes from licensed copies of products containing Copyright subject matters.

The Press Service informed that some measures were taken and according to the conclusion made by a specialist of the Special Research Institute of the Kyrgyz Republic, the disseminated copies (software, audio and video materials) from the website are unauthorized copies, i.e. counterfeit. Also according to the expert’s conclusion, the web resource disseminates harmful software to cause damage to the protection system of certain programs and to obtain an access to its functional.

On this matter a criminal case was initiated on June 28, 2009 in accordance with the Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic (Creation of computer software or alteration of the existing software, which deliberately lead to unauthorized destruction, blocking, modification or copying, operation failure of computer system or its network; as well as use or dissemination of such programs or machine mediums with such programs).

After confiscation of the resource servers the forensic technical examination was initiated in order to determine Copyright subjects matters and harmful programs on the confiscated equipment of “Torrent” web resource («http://www.torrent.kg»). The Press Service explained that the examination could take from two weeks to a month, because “work volume is large”. The Press Service refused to predict or surmise the examination results, referring to waiting for the conclusion of experts.