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The Ministry of Culture has announced that the resolution of the procedure opened against Alexis Giles, the owner of the websites exvagos.com , exvagos1.com and exvagos2.com , to whom it imposes a fine of 400,000 euros and the immediate cessation of activity by the commission of an administrative infraction classified as very serious when recidivism in the infringement of intellectual property rights. The penalty is the highest imposed so far for violating the rules of cultural piracy.
Giles is responsible for the saga of websites that illegally offer a very high volume of content, currently exceeding 760,000 (194,000 ebooks , 180,000 movie results, 92,000 music, 30,000 video games) and has reached three million users Registered The particularity of exvagos.com was that it had a series of controls to prevent any automatic means from identifying the contents and denouncing them for deactivation. In addition, the moderators of each of the forums had a strict protocol that concealed the true purpose of exvagos.com .
The administrative procedure of a sanctioning nature applied to Giles was introduced in the reform of the Intellectual Property Law of 2015, and was perfected in the 2019 reform endorsed by the Congress of Deputies. The measure responds to the agility of the infringing websites that played the dog and the cat with the owners of intellectual property rights and the Administration: temporarily eliminating illegal content, dropping the web momentarily, while the checks were carried out by the Commission. In the case of Exvagos, Gilles came to upload videos to YouTube in which he boasted of his impunity before the requirements of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
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