From: "Aaron Cannon" <cannona@fireantproductions.com>
It's like if documents published by the World Health Organization were made illegal in a specific country or group of countries, it wouldn't make the World Health Organization any less of a world health organization. Just because some countries choose not to partake, that does not mean that the nature or mission of the organization has changed.
That might be true, if Gutenberg also offered books that were illegal in the US, and we had to skip them. It is, in fact, a site based in the US firmly guided by US law. The mission of Project Gutenberg is to make books legal in the US to distribute free, available to people whose laws are compatible with US laws on the particular book. US law is not a world standard from which other countries choose to deviate. Dave Doty