I live in iran, and i see this all the time

“This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah…”

  • we is doomed!
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    39 months ago

    And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.

    Wtf! Why?

    • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      19 months ago

      Legal issues. I think they got sued and geoblocked the whole country for years. We don’t have the same concept of ‘public domain’ here. I think it’s 70 years after the death of the author here. And Project Gutenberg uploads books way earlier since it’s a fixed (and shorter) amount of years after first publication in the USA.

      • Jojo
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        49 months ago

        That sounds almost exactly like the US copyright rule since 1978.

        • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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          19 months ago

          Ah, I didn’t know, thanks. So at some point in the future it’ll become a bit more similar. I’ve looked it up and the court case was about books from Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, who died in 1950, 1955 and 1957…