While I'm sure the "content provider" would disagree, in many cases it's perfectly legal to make a copy of their content - the laws in place only prevent redist

While I'm sure the "content provider" would disagree, in many cases it's perfectly legal to make a copy of their content - the laws in place only prevent redistribution for a certain time period. Personally, I'd be ecstatic if there was some organization set up that is manufacturing high-quality archive copies of books, music, film and the like, and storing them with the date of initial publication, as well as the date they will enter public domain (where it is known - not the case for living authors) in various locales. Then have a site live-tracking the release of that content. There's a site that keeps getting linked every year that posts things that would be public domain this year were it not for US copyright extensions, and something like that with accurate PD status and archive copies would be marvelous.