how many times have you seen the error "403 Forbidden" when visiting websites on Google or such?
I live in iran, and i see this all the time
"This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah..."
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I live in iran, and i see this all the time
"This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah..."
I rarely see it but it happens every now and then. And I sometimes get paywalls or videos are georestricted. And some websites don't want to implement the GDPR and refuse service to european users.
And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.
Btw there is a dedicated http error code proposed instead of just the 403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
Wtf! Why?
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.
That sounds almost exactly like the US copyright rule since 1978.
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...