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

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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.

@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.

@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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@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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