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krtkush | 4 years ago

TIL Project Gutenberg is blocked in Germany.

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skytreader|4 years ago

Technically, Project Gutenberg blocks Germany. Anyway this also surprised me last year! Protip: Main PG is blocking DE IPs but mirrors aren't. Unfortunately, [mirrors](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/81t0ad/project_guten...) don't have the convenient search infra, just the texts. If you can get the ID somehow, then you can navigate to the text in question.

Maybe I missed a more convenient mirror. In which case I'd be really glad for links to convenient mirrors.

SamBam|4 years ago

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg would be displeased.

mrwnmonm|4 years ago

I live in a place governed by the military, and they like to block things. But I have no idea why a country like Germany would do that.

bloak|4 years ago

This might have something to do with it:

https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html

(Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin are out of copyright in the USA, but not in Germany, but obviously there's more to it than that because different countries having different copyright durations is a very normal situation.)

emmelaich|4 years ago

Because of Mein Kampf perhaps? Then again it's on Amazon, do they block Amazon?