ultem
Reminder that access to gutenberg.org is still blocked in Germany.
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Paul Sutton

@ultem Why is it blocked ? surely writing and publishing comes under free speech / expression.

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ultem
@zleap
It's blocked since 2018 since Gutenberg offers several books that are still copyrighted according to German law.

For example "Der Untertan" or "Professor Unrat" by Heinrich Mann.
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Paul Sutton
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@ultem Ah, seems bit heavy handed, that eh. It has lots of books that are out of copyright but we can buy in physical format, people still buy physical books. Sometimes we buy books after reading them electronically.

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ultem
@zleap
Agreed. I'd presume that the copyright laws will be aligned within the EU or worldwide soon-ish. Hopefully not to the detriment of consumers.
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Paul Sutton

@ultem Well hopefully not, and also hopefully not with lots of DRM included, taking of which it is Day Against DRM tomorrow.

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coyote
@zleap @ultem piracy leading to more sales is often what actually happens, then they pretend these people don't buy anything at all
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Paul Sutton

@coyote @ultem Indeed they are just treating people as if they are criminals and that we will copy things, as if that is expected, rather than expecting the behaviour they want which is to buy things, which most people do anyway.

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