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Title    Germany Says You Can't Sell Adult Ebooks Until After 10 PM
Date    Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:18AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the you-can't-make-this-up dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/23/190211

AnonTechie writes:

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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  1. "AnonTechie" - https://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie/
  2. "Techdirt reports" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150620/14190531401/germany-says-you-cant-sell-adult-ebooks-until-after-10-pm.shtml
  3. "the internet (ebook sales)" - http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/06/19/its-now-illegal-to-sell-adult-ebooks-before-10-pm-in-germany/
  4. "Heise.de" - http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Buchhandel-Jugendgefaehrdende-E-Books-duerfen-nur-nachts-verkauft-werden-2717530.html
  5. "Boersenblatt" - http://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-jugendschutz_und_papierqualitaet.970842.html
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=7938
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