I live in iran, and i see this all the time

“This service is blocked because of the laws of USA! blah blah blah…”

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Legal issues. I think they got sued and geoblocked the whole country for years. We don’t have the same concept of ‘public domain’ here. I think it’s 70 years after the death of the author here. And Project Gutenberg uploads books way earlier since it’s a fixed (and shorter) amount of years after first publication in the USA.

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        6 months ago

        That sounds almost exactly like the US copyright rule since 1978.