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> Your IP Address in Germany is Blocked from www.gutenberg.org

Of course, copyright trolls :)

Workaround: https://web.archive.org/web/20180911045657/https://www.guten...

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Info for those outside of Germany: https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html

Whoa. They basically claim jurisdiction on any content based on the language it’s in.

Germany isn't the only country that speaks German...

I had long assumed that Project Gutenberg was based in Germany; probably due to its namesake.

The project was started by Michael S. Hart in 1971 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

http://archive.osb.org/rb/text/toc.html

Alternative link, possibly bit different from gutenberg edition, but should be still the same translation

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