Thread: gutenberg.org blocks access to all German IP-addresses
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Old 03-07-2018, 03:17 PM   #85
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In 2012, the US filed criminal charges against Kim Dotcom of MegaUpload, despite MegaUpload having no physical presence in the USA.

In 2015, Elsevier filed suit in New York against Khazakstani research paper piracy site Sci-Hub, despite Sci-Hub having no presence in the USA.

Various California businesses have been filing suit against foreign violators of their IP in US courts.

I'm sure there are plenty of other cases where legal action was filed in the USA against foreign copyright violators such as piracy sites. Whether the verdicts in those cases can be enforced may be an open question, but as the Wikipedia article I linked a couple of pages back shows, there are mechanisms for foreign judgments to be enforced against American entities via American courts.

So it's not as if filing suit against foreign entities for violating local copyright is exactly anything new in US courts. Why should it be so surprising in German ones?
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