Quote from: Abcdefghijklmnzzz on Today at 09:55:25 AM

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'.

Ok, it seems so we need a little legal and political excursion here. Copyright is the right to determine when, where and how an intellectual property may be distributed under which conditions. Now a Robin Hood of the internet like you comes and says: “No, I’m gonna determine this from now on. Because readers from Vietnam (and Africa and from wherever) are so poor, they (and, by the way, of course everyone from everywhere in the world) obtain now the permanent right of free and unlimited downloads – even though the original publisher charged a fee for downloading because he, his wife and his kids need a place to sleep and something to eat (which, by the way, is much more expensive in his country than it is in Vietnam, but that doesn't matter to me either). And because we have such a nice distributed network like Namecoin (and good working browser add-ons thanks to Trade Runner from Bitcointalk, who brought Namecoin finally back to life), we gonna use this network for the free distribution of everything. I think even movies and music should be distributed for free because other people in this world are so poor, and so we leverage the principle of capitalism using Namecoin, which as you know is backed by the powerful Bitcoin network.”

Well, that's not how things work! A scientist working on which study ever has to know and to accept that some scientific material is not for free. What you also didn't consider is that the scientist from Vietnam also needs even more a regular income after his publication – but according to your argumentation, his work would also have to be provided for free download as well, even though this scientist would need every single penny to survive. With Namecoin, in your opinion, a parallel society is to be built according to the principle of socialism, everyone gets everything for free, but also nothing for their work. History has shown us impressively that this doesn’t work. And hopefully Namecoin will never be used to build such a parallel universe!