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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by johnmax on Saturday March 03, 2018 @08:06PM (#16512709)
if we followed your reasoning, you are able to provide anything illegal at a website, simply by hosting it in a country which you dont really target (eg isle of man).

thus, courts must be able to ask for what they did in the case of gutenberg.

by the way i dont see the big problem, except if the fines were big (maybe they were like only 200 usd)

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Re:Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany by sparkie on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:16PM (#16515449)
A German court has no authority to compel a US company to block a subset of IP addresses though. If they want to enforce domestic policy they only have the right to force domestic companies to perform the block (i.e, by requiring that all German ISPs block access to the site).

A website would need to comply with German laws iff they have operations in Germany.

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