After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by macintux on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:11PM (#19994319)

And yet those big budget films/TV shows are one of the few things remaining that provide a common cultural experience. It’s nice to be able to talk about something besides the weather with a complete stranger.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by clarry on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:15PM (#19994365)

> And yet those big budget films/TV shows are one of the few things remaining that provide a common cultural experience.

For some people. Believe me, there are lots and lots of people who do not share that experience.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by hombre_fatal on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:22PM (#19994420)

I think you gave in to the temptation to point out that you're not like the rest of us sheeple even though it wasn't relevant.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by 0815test on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:57PM (#19994778)

> things... that provide a common cultural experience.

That's what the public domain is for, of course. It's too bad that this limits us to 1923-or-before material (in the U.S., and ignoring non-copyright-renewed stuff from later in the 20th c.) but that still covers centuries of shared culture - even millennia, in some cases!

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by macintux on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:58PM (#19995338)

True enough, but those lack the virtue of timeliness.

Absent an organizing effort, it’s unlikely you’ll catch someone who has read, say, Dracula for the first time recently just like you have and can share that initial enthusiasm for the material.

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