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by Nodraak 1978 days ago
For anyone in Germany (or any country which is blocked by this website), here is the raw html. Save it and open it with your favorite web browser :) http://paste.awesom.eu/Y36k
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For anyone like me who was unfamiliar with this restriction:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180306/03423339363/proje...

Thanks for the context - I had assumed that Germany was blocking it because it pertained to the US military.
Somehow ironic that Germany restricts access to Project Gutenberg, which is named after a famous german.
It is other way round. Gutenberg blocks Germany.
This is because Germany wanted Gutenberg to restrict access to most of their collection, which is not in the public domain in Germany. Gutenberg instead decided to block Germany rather than comply with copyright law.
Where do you see most of their collection? Most of Guttenberg collection does not have copyright claim in Germany.