Thanks for the info.
No epithets are being "flung liberally".
Blocking for legitimate copyright protection makes good business
sense and is not anti-freedom.
Blocking citizen access to news, in order to cover-up corruption
and repression by a tyrannical regime, is an entirely different
matter.
Would you not agree?
> MCBastos wrote:
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.
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