This is a dupe, hosted on a different site, of vrypan's earlier self-posting at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8306864" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8306864</a> .
"Content taken down by claim from BMC rights management"<p>Wouldn't it be great if we had some kind of distributed system for accessing all of humanity's creative content without having to go through gatekeepers?<p>Some kind of massive space-beyond-space, a hyperspace, of documents and media linked and referring to one another--hyperlinked documents if you will.<p>Man, that'd be a hell of a thing, wouldn't it?