Comment by carlosjobim

6 days ago

One is Russian media, just as Russia bans European media.

Also the world's largest library is banned in Germany.

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jeroenhd  6 days ago

Piracy is illegal in most countries. Unless you mean the American Library of Congress, but that's an American decision, not a European one.

amarant  6 days ago

The first one I'm ok with, the second one I'm not sure what you're saying? Google suggests the largest library in the world is the US Congress library, but I couldn't find any sources saying it's banned in Germany? (Also, it's a physical place in the US... What?)

Closest thing I could find to library banned in Germany was a collection of pirated material, which was blocked at a DNS level, meaning many users bypass the ban accidentally, and anyone who wants to can trivially use a different DNS.

I mean I'm probably more in favour of digital piracy than the next guy, but I had completely missed that were calling copyright protection censorship now?

  • carlosjobim  6 days ago

    Yes, I'm referring to the pirate site, which is the largest collection of books in the history of mankind. Of course it is a bit fringe to talk about censorship when it comes to piracy, but I would say that it is. While noting that the US also censors pirate websites.