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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-make-this-up dept.

Techdirt reports that the German government, armed with a law that has its origin in more captive content (movies -- the kind shown in theatres) and attempting to apply it to the internet (ebook sales).

Heise.de (German) and Boersenblatt (German) reported on Friday and Thursday that the Jugendschutzbehörde (Youth Protection Authority) has handed down a new ruling which extended Germany's Youth Media Protection Law to include ebooks.

As a result of a lawsuit (legal complaint?) over the German erotica ebook Schlauchgelüste (Pantyhose Cravings), the regulators have decided that ebook retailers in Germany can now only sell adult ebooks between 10 pm and 6 am local time (4 pm and midnight, eastern US).


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:52PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:52PM (#200466)

    Are the ebooks that fast? I read "Fanny Hill" (A pretty interesting story BTW) and I could trivially order it at 3am when I usually wake up and not get to the fun parts until church bells are ringing, well, at least if I read really slowly. Ditto if I got an ebook copy of Huckleberry Finn if I read slowly enough it could be grade school time by the time I read my first "N word". On the other hand if I somehow tuned into 2G1C the latency from the tv to my eyeballs is measured in nanoseconds. So that aspect is weird. Then there's the classic usenet story groups, r/gonewildstories, places like that. Admittedly not written in German.

    I guess I'm saying I've read several ebooks that have been censored and/or erotica but I feel that if the .gov is doing whacko stuff I must be missing something really good. I used to be really good at finding the "good stuff" when I was a teen boy and if teen boys today are finding stuff I don't know even exists I'm feeling more than a bit left out.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:19PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:19PM (#200476)

    It might all be the second phase of a ploy by the device manufacturers and content providers, to remind us that there is still smut to be read.
    The first phase worked absolutfabulously, which the "shades" crap, but you know about attention span.

    (e-books let you search for the smutty parts, but I don't need that kind of features, since I'm not 13 anymore)