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drnick1today at 5:40 AM5 repliesview on HN

Porn (now requires age verification), online libraries, movies, some news websites, sports (because of obscure copyright laws) and countless other things.


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anthktoday at 7:59 AM

Spaniard here. No, we don't. Every country has different laws. The European Union share some laws but not these.

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viraptortoday at 7:17 AM

This is another "in Europe" thing. There's no "in Europe". Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, etc. will all have different rules.

josefrichtertoday at 6:10 AM

I’m in the EU and haven’t encountered any of these, except the copyright restrictions - which is really a different matter.

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warkdarriortoday at 6:54 AM

Ooooh, if freedom.gov helped bypass copyrights on sports and streaming websites, that would be fantastic!

jusssitoday at 6:26 AM

List please. Surely there is a wiki page you can drop a link to, right?