Carolus wrote:We have no way of instituting a selective block on things at present. It's very annoying but there's not much that can be done about it, sad to say.
Hey, this site describes how to use a free IP database (which lists ranges of all ISPs in the world) (together with ASP code) to determine country of origin of each request, and for non-US (or non-EU) items, we can block accordingly. The database is frequently updated.
When there was a certain situation a few years ago, the other party suggested that it was possible for IMSLP to implement selective downloading, thus blocking certain countries by virtue of knowing the IP address of the downloader. But as Perlnerd points out, this technical issue is trivial to subvert, and indeed any attempt at enforcing a system would be worked around, somehow.
Anyway the policy currently is:
* for a file to be uploaded, it must be public domain in Canada, or have permission from the copyright holder – else it will be duly deleted by the Copyright Review team.
* for a file to be downloaded, it must pass a copyright review, and must also be public domain in the US.
* for a file to be uploaded, it must be public domain in Canada, or have permission from the copyright holder – else it will be duly deleted by the Copyright Review team.
* for a file to be downloaded, it must pass a copyright review, and must also be public domain in the US.
