Quote from: Trade Runner on September 18, 2021, 03:15:27 PM

Quote from: Abcdefghijklmnzzz on September 17, 2021, 08:57:41 PM

Have any of the Namecoin camps, either the main group or Trade Runner, been in contact with this lady?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

Thanks for sharing! Anyway, I haven't had any contact, and to be honest: I'd prefer not to support intentional copyright infringement. Generally Namecoin would be the solution for such scenarios, but on the other hand it would harm Namecoin's reputation as well.

You have been doing good work which I'm glad somebody is doing, but that's as silly a comment as I've seen recently.

She is supporting open access to subscription science articles/journals.

At present it is expensive for amateurs to get some material. A lot is available at sites like PubMed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ and other specialty sites, but a lot of material is hidden from easy access by financial barriers.

This is an extension of colonial attempts to maintain power in the melting pot, and prevent tribal entities and smaller countries from getting on equal footing.

If you live in a remote part of Vietnam, and your kid asks you for a way to access a $30 article you could say "okay, lets go without food for three days'.

In the U.S. a poor person would tell his kid '$30??? are you crazy? That's almost three packs of cigarettes. Go cut grass for an afternoon and make the money yourself'.

A two tiered system is best, where people with plenty of money can simply log in to a site with no worries and get whatever articles they want for an amount of money that is trivial, and people in less moneyed places or situations can take a trivial risk to get equivalent access.

The alternative, if people want to force a single tier, is zero subscription services after things shake out.

That girl's objective is open access to science information, and anybody should support that.

There are a lot of things a developer could do to promote her project. Create a Namecoin clone/fork with a small premine and give it to her to create a network containing only science journals, she could use the premine to buy long term server space, and supporters could use her coin. She would have more real regular users on her network then most coins have, if it were a secure network. If her coin were completely interoperable with Namecoin browser extensions and a person could flip back and forth between 'networks' without regard to 'currencies' it would give a practical touch to the pathetic digital economy.