*Free AudioBooks*
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp - Hundreds of audio books for free.
http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/ - Free classic audiobooks.
http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/ - Lots of free classic audio books, read by a text-to-speech program. The best text-to-speech program I've heard, but still obviously not as good as a person.
http://www.unabridgedbooks.com/index.php/cPath/46 - Audio books - some for pay, some for free.
*Pay AudioBooks (DRM-free mp3s)*
http://www.telltaleweekly.org/ - Lots of classic audio books. I think all of them cost, but the charges are low.
*Free Video*
http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/ - Hundreds of shows and movies that have fallen into the public domain, available for free download.
http://www.pc-facile.com/software.php?action=download&id=228 DVD Shrink - rip your DVDs to your PC so you can watch them at your leisure or build a media server a la Freevo or MythTV. href Tutorial
*Pay Video*
http://www.4flix.net/store/index.html - Movies & video shorts. A few for free, hundreds for $1.99 each. Mostly old or indie.
*Free Music*
http://www.fingertipsmusi.com/ - independent music review site, with links to mp3s
http://www.gigatracks.com/ - independent music review site, with links to mp3s
http://publicdomain4u.com/ - tons of random free mp3s
http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/ - Asian Classical Music (!?!)
http://www.archive.org/audio/ - Live Music Archive, with free mp3s
There are tons more listed on this free music guide.
You can also try iRATE radio, a free Java application that tries to download (free) music you like based on how you rate the songs.
*Free Text*
Project Gutenberg - the classic archive of out-of-print e-texts. Thousands of the world's greatest pieces of literature, online, for free.
The Internet Public Library also has a huge list of classic e-texts online.
The Fiction section of Kuro5hin has some good stuff, especially that of localroger
Cory Doctorow has some good sci-fi online.
Also see Accelerando by Charlie Stross.
Another bunch of classic books are available at http://www.classicreader.com/
The University of Pennsylvania online book library indexes over 25,000 online books.
There is lots more out there. Google has the answer.
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