alt Hacker NewsFrom Italy, https://www.gutenberg.org/ gives a 404 error and https://gutenberg.org/ opens a very official-looking page stating "police notice. This site is under judicial seizure" and references a sentence number: "criminal proceedings 52127/20 R.N.R.I. tribunal of Rome"
Any idea what's happening? I thought PG published public domain books...
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It was also blocked in Germany for a while due to a court order https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html
I asked Claude to research the background story: "In May 2020, the Court of Rome ordered Italian ISPs to seize/block a list of domains as part of a criminal case (the 52127/20 R.N.R. you're seeing) targeting sites and Telegram channels distributing pirated newspapers and magazines. 28 domains were on the list, and Project Gutenberg got thrown in alongside the actual pirate sites."
apparently this situation hasn't been resolved yet
Found: it's a sentence from 2020, and PG decided not to appeal (!?)
Full story (in Italian) at https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2020/06/30/progetto-gutenb...