Blizzard Fined by Russia for “Failure to Fulfill Duties as Organizers of Information Dissemination”
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- TASS reported that a Moscow court imposed administrative fines on Blizzard Entertainment and My.Games.
- The fines were issued due to their “failure to fulfill duties as organizers of information dissemination (OID) on the internet.”
- Blizzard and My.Games must pay a fine of around $7,300 (600,000 Russian rubles).
TASS, a Russian news outlet, reported that a Moscow court imposed administrative fines on Blizzard Entertainment and My.Games. Both companies must pay a fine of around $7,300 (600,000 Russian rubles) to the Russian treasury for “failure to fulfill duties as organizers of information dissemination (OID) on the internet.” The detailed reasoning behind the fines was not explicitly stated in the TASS material.
App2Top speculates that the developers violated and ignored multiple requests from Roskomnadzor, a Russian federal agency that monitors and controls mass media, to notify their operations beginning as OIDs, thereby refusing to join the appropriate registry—a conclusion App2Top reached after glancing over the OID register, which does not include either Blizzard Entertainment or My.Games.
Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher owned by Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard is owned by Microsoft. As for My.Games, the European game developer and publisher is based in Amsterdam. One of the developers’ most popular game titles is Rush Royale, a mobile game that achieved “over 90 million downloads and generated more than $370 million in lifetime revenue.”
