Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany
by mcguire on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:25PM
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PG is a US organization. They may have volunteer mirrors in Germany, but all of PG itself is in San Francisco, right?
Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany
by netsharc on Sunday March 04, 2018 @10:05AM
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Now we're mixing up 2 issues... torrents of copyrighted content with German seeders, and e-books of copyrighted content (at least copyrighted in Germany) with a website provider.
They only go for German seeders because asking a foreign ISP for the address of someone who used a particular IP address at a particular date and time would probably get them the middle finger as a reply. In the case of PG, they know who is making the copyrighted content available in Germany, because PG has an address on their website.
And a German court said it's within their jurisdiction.
If you run a mirror with your contact information available, presumably they will contact you next.
Access from Germany isn't the issue, having a German IP is the issue. They don't go after foreign seeders because that would be too much hassle getting the real data behind the IP (just like German law doesn't apply to them), but they hunt down seeders with German IP's with quite a vengeance.