Project Gutenberg bans anonymisers, proxies, VPNs and Tor

by ch215 • 12 years ago

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coding4all• 12 years ago

It's interesting to see one of my favorite sites doing this. There's always https://openlibrary.org/ which is ran by https://archive.org/ . I imagine Open Library has many of the same books.

gumby• 12 years ago

Why don't they explain why they have these restrictions? Their books are all in the public domain so what difference could it possibly make who downloads them?

The 24 hour download limit could possibly be defensible if they explained it -- for example they might encourage you to cache a copy of a book you'd like rather than refetch it every time. But they don't bother to explain.

I agree with coding4all: avoid this crap by simply going to the Internet Archive.

jcrawfordor• 12 years ago

I suspect they just have a small amount of money and a large amount of load. You have to do something to try to keep load manageable while still serving the most users.

zokier• 12 years ago

Interestingly enough they have a link to Tor hidden service in their ToS: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use

If you think that TOR gives you the anonymity you want, go here for a hidden mirror of our text files: http://libraryhvopfiqnp.onion/gutenberg/

asdasdsad3• 12 years ago

quote from the onion link :-DD At the moment this server only mirrors PoC||GTFO.

walterbell2• 12 years ago

Project Gitenberg: http://gitenberg.github.io

jsilence• 12 years ago

Would be nice to see a decent webinterface hosted nowhere by zeronet [1] serving torrent magnet links of individual books or small collections.

That way a free library of public domain books could be hosted without server costs by the people for the people.

walterbell2• 12 years ago

Thanks for the pointer to zeronet, https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

asdasdsad3• 12 years ago

Eric Schmidt said in an interview once that once you have access to entire worlds knowledge governments would like to know who you are

anta40• 12 years ago

Interesting quote. Where can I find this interview (website/youtube/etc) ?

asdasdsad3• 12 years ago

unfortunately I could not find it again it was newspaper like Atlantic or something like that maybe it was censorship.

Project Gutenberg bans anonymisers, proxies, VPNs and Tor

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