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posted by martyb on Thursday June 04 2020, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the Project-Gutenberg-sind-nicht-seht-gut? dept.

Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy For Copyright Infringement:

Project Gutenberg, a volunteer effort to digitize and archive books, is sometimes described as the world’s oldest digital library.

Founded in 1971, Project Gutenberg‘s archives now stretch to a total of more than 62,000 books, with a focus on titles that entered the public domain after their copyrights expired. The library does carry some and in-copyright books but these are distributed with the express permission of their owners.

The project has an excellent reputation and its work is considered a great contribution to education and culture. However, it now transpires that the site has been rendered inaccessible by ISPs in Italy under the instructions of the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Rome.

[...] The seizure/blocking notice states that all of the targeted domains “distributed, transmitted and disseminated in pdf format, magazines, newspapers and books (property protected by copyright) after having illegally acquired numerous computer files with their content, communicating them to the public, [and] entering them into a system of communication networks.”

[...] “The investigation, conducted by a special unit of the Guardia di Finanza, has been developed in the context of monitoring the targeted Internet networks to combat economic and financial offenses perpetrated online.

“In this context, the operators identified some web resources registered on foreign servers which make content and magazines available to the public early in the morning, allowing users to view or download digital copies,” the court document reads. (translated from Italian)


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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday June 05 2020, @10:16PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Friday June 05 2020, @10:16PM (#1003979)

    Post it all you want, its still wrong.

    The Nazis had clearly socialist policies, including a strong social safety net, strong unions, support for workers, state health care, and many state owned/directed industries (e.g. the "Peoples car" in VW). In fact it is those socialist policies that drove them into the public spotlight. They were "populists" that had the solution to the problems of reparations, the economic collapse and hyperinflation (sound familiar?) post WWI.

    The difference was that these policies were only for "Germans" as they defined them, which was quite a narrow definition, that is what made it "national" socialism, rather than what we tend to have today..

    With the rise of communism, the Nazi party started worrying that they would be usurped, so started cracking down on those who could oppose them (which was those communists to the left of them, who seemed more "in touch" with the workers), but that doesn't change the fact that they very much clothed themselves in "socialism" throughout.

    Although the fact we are arguing over nuances in whether the Nazi party was fascist or socialist again proves my core point about how the two are effectively the same authoritarian structure, just with slightly different presentation.

    And from your link, I see I am not the only one who is aware of the similarities:

    https://soylentnews.org/politics/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=22973&page=1&cid=607415#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

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