[harrid]

It's unfortunately as simple as: Germany does not have internet access. Just from the top of my head I could name three other sites that are blocked here. All of them from completely different backgrounds (porn, piracy, government criticism)

[FirmwareBurner]

More accurate would be: German courts and legislators are in the pockets of some major wealthy corporations/interest groups, who can and do act like IP trolls, because they can lobby their way high up so that that laws are always in their flavor, because Germany actually is, to the surprise of many foreigners, a highly corrupt country at the top.

Whenever I hear "Hamburg Regional Court" or "Axel Springer" in a sentence, I know what's coming.

I just wish there would be some better EU wide rules that could overrule those in Germany, but AFIK those interest groups are also infiltrated at EU level since when the EU decided not to publicly publish their study proving that piracy doesn't actually harm sales[1].

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira...

[ofrzeta]

Maybe. On the other hand as a German I was unpleasantly surprised how many sites (that were accessible at home) are blocked in Italy when I spent my holiday there.