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That's a bad idea and you should feel bad for having it! Filthy, unclean pirate!
Just getting that out of the way at the outset so we can avoid it later. what you describe isn't anything new. "Pirates" have been key in preserving long-forgotten works of music, and I just read an article from Kotaku on how "pirates" are the only reason relatively unpopular and forgotten videogames have been preserved at all. One of the downsides of lengthy copyright is that culture can permanently lose creative works.
And since a few will skim the above and declare that:
(i) I think that there should be no copyright;
(ii) I'm unwilling to pay for anything; or
(iii) I want to see creators (and there children if I can manage it) reduced to standing in line at a soup kitchen or warming themselves by a barrel-fire under an overpass,
I do not in fact believe those things.
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