> Because the German Court has overstepped its jurisdiction, and allowed the world's largest publishing group to bully Project Gutenberg for these 18 books, there is every reason to think that this will keep happening. There are thousands of eBooks in the Project Gutenberg collection that could be subject to similar over-reaching and illigitimate actions.

> PGLAF's legal advisors disagree with all claims that there must be any blocking, or removal, or anything associated - censorship, fines/fees, disclaimers, etc. - for items that are in the public domain in the US. Period.

I find this situation very similar to GDPR. I'd probably be down-voted for saying this (probably the demographic), but I will do the same thing to all of my online services and websites - I will block access to anyone based in EU leaving them a simple note to sort out their GDPR rules with their governments. My company is based in the states, I DO NOT have an obligation to follow your bullshit compliance requirements because you feel like it and over-step your jurisdiction. I will continue to follow the laws of where my company is incorporated under, but not every government in the world. So, fuck you and your tiny little data collection notice, I already have terms and conditions in place specifically for this purpose on my website and if you don't take an effort to read them, I am not simply going to modify my site code to make it easy for your lazy ass to display a notice on my data collection policies.

/end rant