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🟢 [New Report] Italy blocks Gutenberg book publishing website
https://ooni.org/post/2021-italy-blocks-gutenberg-book-publishing-website/

In collaboration w/ Davide Brunello, we published a new report which examines the blocking of the Gutenberg book publishing website across networks in #Italy based on OONI data.

#italy #censorship #ooni #ooniprobe #oonidata #opendata #oonireport


Italy blocks Gutenberg book publishing website

This report shares OONI measurements on the blocking of the Gutenberg book publishing website in Italy.
ooni.org
#Italy #opendata #censorship #ooni #ooniprobe #oonidata #oonireport

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OONI
OONI measurement analysis shows that access to www.gutenberg.org is blocked on at least 7 AS networks in #Italy.

Most ISPs primarily block access by means of DNS tampering.
https://ooni.org/post/2021-italy-blocks-gutenberg-book-publishing-website/

Italy blocks Gutenberg book publishing website

This report shares OONI measurements on the blocking of the Gutenberg book publishing website in Italy.
ooni.org
#Italy
OONI
In blocking www.gutenberg.org, some ISPs in #Italy (e.g Fastweb & Tiscali) return an NXDOMAIN, others (e.g. TIM, Telecom Italia, Iliad) return the IP address 127.0.0.1, while Vodafone Italia returns the IP address 83.224.65.170.
https://ooni.org/post/2021-italy-blocks-gutenberg-book-publishing-website/

#italy #censorship #ooni #oonidata #opendata #oonireport

Italy blocks Gutenberg book publishing website

This report shares OONI measurements on the blocking of the Gutenberg book publishing website in Italy.
ooni.org
#Italy #opendata #censorship #ooni #oonidata #oonireport

federico reshared this.

OONI
Regardless of what is returned in the DNS response, what all ISPs in #Italy (at least those included in this study) appear to have in common is the lack of transparency of the fact that access to www.gutenberg.org is intentionally blocked.

Internet users just see an error message.

#italy #censorship #ooni #oonidata #opendata #oonireport

#Italy #opendata #censorship #ooni #oonidata #oonireport

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kravietz 🦇
Long time ago there was a court ruling in Germany due to an argument about the length of copyright protection. Didn't realize they got the ban legally enforced in Italy as well.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
The ban in Italy was added together with the ban of a few websites explicitly dedicated to pirating books in Italian; there is an hypothesis that the people who made that list also found something like ~10 books on project Gutenberg that are still under copyright in Italy and decided to ban the whole website.
gnarlin
When the hell is Italy blocking gutenberg.org?
Kario Muschel
is there a torrent with the http version of the website in a docker container? i'd like to make it accessible over tor.
Kario Muschel
you forgot to mention the tag #contentmafia xD

#contentmafia
Kiwix
At @kiwix, we periodicaly prepare an offline package of the Gutenberg Library. Here is the online demo version of it https://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all. Here the offline downloadable ZIM package to be read with Kiwix software https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim. We have language dedicated packages as well, like in Italian, see https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/

The Gutenberg Project

Project Gutenberg Ebooks.
library.kiwix.org
@Kiwix

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Elena ``of Valhalla''
uh, I didn't know that there was a multilanguage zim file for project Gutenberg! Thanks!

That includes everything that is in the language specific ones, right?
Dubbel likken dubbel lekker!
LB: The fact that Project Gutenberg is now blocked at least in Germany and Italy points to a flaw in yet again relying on a US-based website in the EU, where the legislation (this time around copyright) is different and courts can make an easy case of blocking the site.

Disrespecting copyright is of course one avenue that should be explored, but on top of that, what if there was a European version of Gutenberg that would make sure that the selection doesn't violate European copyright laws?

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