Interviewed by CNN on 28/05/2011 00:55, d...@kd4e.com told the world: > The Internet is usually thought of as without boundaries, > except where renegade thuggish nations manipulate their > captive populations by manipulating information. > > So, I have been surprised from time to time when I am on > a site in Europe or elsewhere and get an error saying > that some resource is not available in my "region".
If you are going to fling epithets liberally, I might point out that some sites in the United States also deny content to foreigners. Hulu.com being a prime example. Again, licensing is probably the cause: Hulu has licenses to exhibit the material in the U.S., but not abroad. Copyright may be also a problem, because different countries used to have different copyright laws (nowadays they are very similar, following the Berne Convention). Particularly, the U.S. used to have a "28 years from register, renewable once" system, while Berne convention countries had a "till 60 years after author's death, no registration needed" system. So, something could have an expired copyright in one country, but be still under copyright abroad. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my NeXT Cube. *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.14 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
