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.
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.
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.