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how many times have you seen the error "403 Forbidden" when visiting websites on Google or such? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by HoseanRC@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I live in iran, and i see this all the time

"This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah..."

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[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.

Wtf! Why?

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds almost exactly like the US copyright rule since 1978.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, I didn't know, thanks. So at some point in the future it'll become a bit more similar. I've looked it up and the court case was about books from Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, who died in 1950, 1955 and 1957...