A State Duma committee has approved a bill to introduce fines of up to 1 million rubles ($30,000) for Internet users, websites, service providers and search engines failing to comply with an online piracy blacklist.

The bill was approved in the first of its three required readings on Tuesday, the head of the constitutional affairs committee, Vladimir Pligin, told RIA Novosti.

The maximum fine is only applicable to companies, while sanctions for individuals acting as “informational intermediaries” that provide access to pirated content are capped at 5,000 rubles ($150), according to the bill’s text, available on the parliament’s website. But the sanctions may be reconsidered before the bill is passed, likely to happen during the upcoming fall Duma session, Pligin said.

The bill is a follow-up to an anti-piracy law enacted in July, which allowed temporary extrajudicial blacklisting of websites accused of distributing pirated films and television shows. The bill made enforcing the bans partial responsibility of “information intermediaries,” but spelled out no penalties for their ignoring the blacklist.

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