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