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by ben_w 2064 days ago
It’s a Carol business decision that letting Alices & Bobs view content for free isn’t cost effective if Carol isn’t allowed to track Alice and Bob without their permission and make money by letting Eve, who is unknown Alice and Bob, to build up a detailed profile of Alice and Bob.

Project Guttenberg in Germany (and The Pirate Bay in the USA, I think) would be 451.

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Why is Project Gutenberg illegal in Germany?
Court order regarding blocking specific books, the project itself isn’t a problem: https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html