In the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China's first Internet court was opened.

The Internet court will consider materials related to fraud in online trading, cases involving online debt contracts and copyright infringement on the Internet, ria.ru reports. All the court procedures, from the filing of the lawsuit and the initiation of the case, will be conducted through the site of the court. The hearings and the announcement of the verdict will also be conducted online via video broadcast.

Earlier it was noted that the city's judicial system already conducts many cases on cybercrime and their number is constantly growing. In 2013 the court considered about 600 such cases, and last year their number exceeded 10 thousand.

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