[seqfan] Re: Do you know somebody of Project Gutenberg's staff?

[Georg.Fischer]

No, I'm redirected to
<http://block.pglaf.org/germany.shtml>

Am 01.01.2019 um 20:04 schrieb Wouter Meeussen:
> Georg,
> 
> does http://www.gutenberg.org/files/682/682.txt work for you?
> 
> Wouter.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Georg.Fischer Sent: Tuesday, January 
> 01, 2019 6:24 PM To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu Subject: [seqfan] Re: Do you 
> know somebody of Project Gutenberg's staff?
> My concern are not the Thomas + Heinrich Mann works,
> (my wife has most of them in printed books anyway).
> 
> Some of my obstacles were the 8 OEIS sequences which contain
> links to ibiblio.org:
> 3 http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/brnll10.txt
> 2 http://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext01/fbncc10.txt 2 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/zeta310.txt
> 1 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext94
>                /2sqrt10a.txt
> These URLs are not really broken, but the page says that the file
> is no longer on ibiblio.org ("quasi-broken"). I could repair
> these links, but then they join the other 48 gutenberg.org
> links which are not accessible in Germany, among them:
> 
> %H A000040 Project Gutenberg Etext, <a 
> href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/65">First 100,000 Prime Numbers</a>
> %H A030169 Simon Plouffe, editor, <a 
> href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/634">Miscellaneous Mathematical 
> Constants</a> Project Gutenberg, 1996 [see "Minimal y of GAMMA(x)" 
> paragraph].
> %H A006752 T. Papanikolaou and G. Fee, <a 
> href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/812">Catalan's Constant 
> [Ramanujan's Formula] to 1,500,000 places</a> [Gutenberg Project Etext]
> %H A054245 Project Gutenberg, <a 
> href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/156">Symphony No. 5 in C minor 
> Opus 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven</a> (MIDI files). [From _M. F. Hasler_, 
> Jun 12 2012]
> 
> I think that, with some effort and good will, Project Gutenberg could 
> geo-block those 18 files only, and even could (and should) find out the 
> other cases where authors's rights are not yet expired.
> 
> But my problem seems to be - as Brendan noted - a waste of time.
> Regards - Georg
> 
>> * Brendan McKay <Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au> [Jan 01. 2019 11:11]:
>>> The way that court cases usually go is that some representative
>>> examples of the alleged offence are considered. PG probably
>>> blocked all content to Germany because there are many other
>>> books in the same situation as these particular seven.
> ...
>>> I suggest, firstly, that it is a waste of time trying to get PG to make
>>> particular books available in Germany.  And, secondly, that some
>>> of the books are probably visible at other sites, so an extra URL
>>> could be added.
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