I think this is a great idea in general. As an aside, when I first discovered Project Gutenberg I thought it was really exciting, but as I've grown up my perspe

I think this is a great idea in general. As an aside, when I first discovered Project Gutenberg I thought it was really exciting, but as I've grown up my perspective has changed: it feels like a desperate attempt to scrape together something like what used to be recognizable as culture from cast-off bits of art that capitalism can no longer commodify. Same with FLOSS and Creative Commons. They are at the same time wonderful, and yet seem to be the products of a reality in which every relevant part of our so-called cultural identity is owned by a corporation. I have an idea that the "creative commons" used to exist and that sometime in the 20th century it became hopelessly barren.