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Germany forced Project Gutenberg to take down a few books for Germans who used the site a couple years ago, despite the site being entirely operated from the US.

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Sounds reasonable.

It's not reasonable for someone to assume liability in a country they don't operate in.

Did they block German traffic? And thats not snark: English gambling sites used to have to block US traffic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039 for an earlier discussion and details about this.

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