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Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by philippnagel »

dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

Works fine for me. Seems like the block is not active at the moment.

Edit: Individual books are blocked.

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by dsacco »

thesimon wrote: post #7
dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

>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.

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.

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by ryaniscool »

weinzierl wrote: post #2

> PGLAF complied with the Court's order on February 28, 2018 by blocking all access to www.gutenberg.org and sub-pages to all of Germany. I can access www.gutenberg.org and sub-pages just fine from Germany. So the block doesn't seem to be active at the moment. > Q: Why didn't Project Gutenberg simply remove the items? > A: The is no reason to remove them. The 18 eBooks are all in the public domain in the US, and have…

He explains this further down. To paraphrase, he doesn't want to endanger his appeal by flaunting the German court order

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by [deleted] »

cheschire wrote: post #10
dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

Can confirm it. All books are blocked even though the front page is accessible.

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Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by dsacco »

cheschire wrote: post #10
dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

Can confirm it. All books are blocked even though the front page is accessible.

Ah, maybe that explains the conflicting reports. Can you at least search for books and see results?

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by cheschire »

dsacco wrote: post #12
thesimon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

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.

They only block the books themselves, not the index pages. Attempting to view any book will result in a block message.

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by cheschire »

dsacco wrote: post #15
cheschire wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can confirm it. All books are blocked even though the front page is accessible.

Ah, maybe that explains the conflicting reports. Can you at least search for books and see results?

Browsing indices works, however search is blocked as well.

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by [deleted] »

tehlike wrote: post #6
dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

Can anything be made using ipfs?

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Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by thesimon »

philippnagel wrote: post #11
dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

Works fine for me. Seems like the block is not active at the moment. Edit: Individual books are blocked.

>Edit: Individual books are blocked.

Vodafone?

Re: Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany

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Post by [deleted] »

tehlike wrote: post #6
dsacco wrote: post #5

Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg . I also support FTP and Rsync if you’d like to download that way. No donations are asked for, but it would be helpful if more people hosted mirrors for precisely this reason :). Unfortunately thi…

Can anything be made using ipfs?

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