EX.UA is the largest Ukrainian file sharing service . It was founded in the summer of 2009. All servers of the service were located on the territory of Ukraine. The service supports downloading files up to 50 gigabytes [2] . According to alexa.com , as of June 2016, ex.ua is on the 13th place in attendance among Ukrainian Internet users [3] . Service traffic accounts for about 15% of all traffic in the UA-IX zone [4] . In the middle of November 2016, there was a news on the EX.UA official website that the file sharing service stops working [5] , in connection with the adoption of the new law No. 3081-d on state support for Ukrainian cinema. All users were asked to remove files from their archives until 12/31/2016.
| ex.ua | |
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| URL | ex.ua |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Site type | File sharing |
| check in | Free, optional |
| Languages) | Russian , Ukrainian , English , Spanish , German , Polish , Japanese , French , Kazakh |
| Server location |  Ukraine |
| Beginning of work | year 2009 |
| End of work | 2016 year |
| Current status | Is closed |
| Alexa rating | |
Content
Service Description
According to the author :
The idea is that any user has the right to post an unlimited amount of information: store, publish and share it. From the very beginning, the idea was not that “everything is free”, but that it is possible to store unlimited amounts of your data.
History
The service was founded in the summer of 2009 after the Ministry closed the same resource, infostore.org .
In November 2010, the American Recording Association RIAA entered ex.ua into the list of 25 sites that contribute to the illegal distribution of music [6] . The association claimed that there was not a single video or audio file on the site, the legal distribution of which was confirmed by the copyright owner. After these events, the representative of ex.ua, Yuri Piskovy, stated that the service could be paid to deduct the percentage to the content authors and avoid charges of piracy.
December 16, 2010 the site was temporarily unavailable for technical reasons. Some electronic media reported that the service was closed for distributing pirated products. After a day, the site worked again, but became available only to Ukrainian users.
Suspending work in 2012
January 31, 2012 the site became unavailable for its users. The site was closed by law enforcement agencies as part of the investigation of a criminal case under Article 176 of Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of copyright and related rights ). The criminal case was initiated by the official representatives of the world's leading software manufacturers - international corporations « Adobe Systems Inc. , Microsoft Corporation , Graphisoft Inc. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, during searches in the office and data centers of EX.UA, a large amount of computer equipment and network equipment was withdrawn, including 200 servers with a total content of over 6000 terabytes (the administration of the service refuted this information and only reported that the delegation of the domain name registrar imena.ua ) [7] , the delegation of the domain name is stopped. Operatives found that the administration of the resource was headed by a citizen of Latvia. The article, according to which a criminal case was initiated, provides for imprisonment for up to 5 years with confiscation of copies of works and relevant equipment.
On February 1, 2012, People’s Deputy of Ukraine Vladimir Danilenko appealed to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine with a demand to check the legality of a criminal case against the Internet resource EX.ua [8] .
On February 2, after the protests and DDoS attacks on government websites (the websites of the President [1] , the Cabinet of Ministers [2] , the Interior Ministry [3] , the Security Service of Ukraine [4] , the Verkhovna Rada [5] suffered), the police agreed to return the blocked domain to the service name. The site became available on February 3. The criminal case against the administration of the site was not closed, but the site appeared on the network again - however, the overwhelming part of the data was not available for downloading [9] .
On March 29, the People's Deputy of Ukraine, the first secretary of the Sumy Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Vladimir Danilenko, reported that investigators responsible for the closure of EX.UA were brought to justice [10] .
On June 15, 2012, all 123 seized servers were returned to EX.UA. Representatives of the resource said that all inaccessible information will be restored within a week.
According to available information, the arrest of the servers was made as a result of diplomatic pressure from the United States [11] .
Change Peer Policy
In connection with the inclusion of Russian operators in the route server of Ukrainian exchange points, to protect Ukrainian content, EX.UA decided to change the peering policy from open to closed and switched to CDN exchange technology [12] .
Roskomnadzor blocking access to a resource
07/23/2014 at 11:39 [13] The IP address of the EX.UA resource was entered in the register of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor. The reason for this was the refusal of the administration of the resource in response to an appeal from the Russian bureau, Kachkin and Partners.
Notes
- ↑ Alexa Internet - 1996.
- ↑ Script for uploading files (allows uploading files up to 50 GB) Archived August 22, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ex.ua ex.ua Site Overview
- ↑ After the closure of EX.ua, Ukrainian traffic fell by 5–15% http://podrobnosti.ua/internet/2012/02/01/817917.html
- ↑ File hosting EX.UA halts operations. EX.UA is a statement on the resource's home page. // UNIAN , 16 November 2016 (English)
- ↑ Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets. February 28, 2011 Archived March 7, 2016. (pdf) // USTR
- ↑ The police explained that EX.UA was closed for copyright infringement. Microsoft, Adobe and other companies complained to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine about the file hosting service EX.UA, after which law enforcement officers opened a criminal case and seized the server http://delo.ua/tech/mvd-zakrylo-exua-po-navodke-microsoft-i-adobe -172789 /
- ↑ Vladimir Danilenko appealed to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine with a request to check the legality of the closure of the EX.UA resource Archived July 19, 2014. . The site of people's deputy Vladimir Danilenko. February 1, 2012.
- ↑ EX.UA again in Archived May 10, 2012.
- ↑ Volodymyr Danilenko brought investigators responsible for the closure of EX.UA to responsibility (document) Archived July 19, 2014. . The site of people's deputy Volodymyr Danilenko. 29 March 2012.
- ↑ Updated list of the world's largest violators of intellectual property rights
- ↑ Change of peering policy Archived August 18, 2014.
- ↑ Information on entering the EX.UA resource into the registry of prohibited sites