In mid-February, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) proposed amendments to the law “On Protection of Competition“. Their essence is the removal of IT immunity to antimonopoly legislation. Part of the IT market immediately opposed the amendments. We are sorting it out.

Clarity has appeared in the adopted law on pre-installations of Russian software on smartphones. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) told what software needs to be pre-installed on the gadgets being sold.

Crytek Studios and Cloud Imperium Games have been suing each other since 2017. But when Crytek decided to withdraw the lawsuit, the authors of Star Citizen demanded compensation: $ 500 thousand. And they also accused the plaintiff of lying.

Japan can follow the example of China and South Korea. For teenagers living in Kagawa Prefecture, a daily limit on the use of smartphones may be introduced. Including for mobile games.

Wargaming Company in the comments for App2Top.ru she confirmed that she had filed a lawsuit against her former employees. She claims that their posting on GitHub of the DAVA Engine code created after 2014 was not authorized.

The Belarusian indie studio Blitz Team has stated that Wargaming is pursuing its former employees for working on an open source project.

Rambler Group no longer has any claims to the Twitch streaming platform. The Russian company withdrew the claim for $2.9 billion.

Good news. The Rambler Board of Directors decided to stop the criminal prosecution of Nginx. He will soon make an appropriate appeal to law enforcement agencies.

There are no negotiations on a pre-trial agreement with Rambler, Twitch said.

Rambler commented on a lawsuit against Twitch for $2.9 billion. One of the top managers said that Rambler Group does not exclude the possibility of a settlement agreement.

Following the case against Nginx, the Rambler company launches another one. This time against the streaming service Twitch. The latter is accused of distributing pirated broadcasts. Rambler plans to recover 180 billion rubles ($2.9 billion) from the American giant.

Law enforcement agencies of the United States are wary of applications developed in Russia. This became known from a letter from FBI Director for Congressional Affairs Jill C. Tyson (Jill C. Tyson).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an ambiguous law that obliges to pre-install programs of domestic development on smart devices. Its wording raises many questions.

In the third final reading, the State Duma adopted the law on presets. According to him, Russian software must be pre-installed on smart devices sold in Russia.

With minimal edits, the Russian State Duma passed a bill in the second reading, according to which the sale of smartphones, laptops and game consoles that do not have programs developed by Russian companies pre-installed in Russia may be banned from the summer of 2020.

Yesterday, in the first reading, the State Duma adopted a bill according to which Russia may ban the sale of any devices that do not have Russian software preinstalled from next summer. We asked the law firm Semenov&Pevzner to comment on the document.

Last Friday, United Russia deputy Anton Gorelkin introduced a controversial bill. He proposed to identify the most important IT products in Russia and limit the participation of foreign individuals or companies in them to 20%. I was looking into the bill and whether it could affect the video game industry App2Top.ru .

On July 23, the State Duma will discuss amendments to the law “On the National Payment System” in the second reading. The law prohibits international payment systems (IPS) on the territory of Russia to comply with international sanctions. The adoption of new regulations is highly likely to lead to the withdrawal of Visa and MasterCard from the domestic market.

The mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, People’s Daily, has prepared a document on the introduction of an age rating for the games in the country. Bloomberg claims that the “independent” initiative has already been supported by the country’s leading publishers — Tencent, NetEase and Perfect World.