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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by thesimon on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:06PM (#16511579)
>Can someone who is in Germany actually confirm this block is in place?

Cannot confirm it, Gutenberg.org works fine for me.

Edit: tried 3 different ISPs, no issues.

Edit 2: Tried accessing books, this was blocked for 1/3.

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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by dsacco on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:08PM (#16511590)
Interesting, thanks. I wonder if the block was more localized then all of Germany, if it was simply misconfigured, or if they just decided to stop blocking the traffic.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by cheschire on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:09PM (#16511600)
They only block the books themselves, not the index pages. Attempting to view any book will result in a block message.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by freeflight on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:37PM (#16511735)
I'm on one of the biggest German ISPs (Deutsche Telekom) and I can access front page and books just fine.

Tried it with the HTML versions of four different books, among them "most popular" like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and A Tale of Two Cities, they all work without issue.

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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by teamhappy on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:20PM (#16511999)
Vodafone/Kabel Deutschland doesn't seem to be blocked either. (I tried a couple from the 18 that are supposed to be blocked.)
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by YtvwlD on Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:04AM (#16513613)
Unitymedia doesn't seem to be blocked either.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by Merem on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:30PM (#16511692)
Works fine for me for all books I tested. Can you name some specific ones which are blocked for you?
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by cheschire on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:34PM (#16511719)
The top ten of the top 100 list are all blocked, as well as many random books in several random languages.
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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by Merem on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:43PM (#16511778)
All of them work for me, same with the search function or even the actual 18 books. Same ISP as freeflight. Well, that's interesting...
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