Comment by mistrial9
5 years ago
Project Gutenburg was blocked in Germany ? news to me, weird.. especialy considering the torrents and spy action that has happened in the same 25 years, while this token effort protects companies formed in the 1950s.
5 years ago
Project Gutenburg was blocked in Germany ? news to me, weird.. especialy considering the torrents and spy action that has happened in the same 25 years, while this token effort protects companies formed in the 1950s.
Not only in Germany. Also in Italy, as of May 2020 (those hardly definable beasts that carved their way into the state made a bunch of targets associating Project Gutenberg with pirate sites).
In this case Project Gutenberg blocked German IP ranges to try to avoid legal issues (and since they wanted to make a point didn't only block the material under debate but their entire site). That overblocking approach seems to be what they changed now in favor of a targeted block of just Thomas Mann's work or whatever it is the German publishers have been complaining about.
Why would a torrent site do the same?