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