Quote from: Trade Runner on Today at 09:41:38 PM

Your false assumption behind this conspiracy theory is that a paywall would have been created by any government for the purpose of displacing poor countries, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. But this is ridiculous. Paywalls are simply services to generate revenue for digital publications. It's the same as online shopping or digital distribution. Anarchy would just mean freeing up all local or digital stores for plundering, and welcome back to the Stone Age!

It is a strategic thing for industrialized countries to enforce copyright protections on scientific writing.

It lets industrialized countries limit the sharing of their science to among themselves while having full access to any scientific material from developing countries.

Look at the vast government resources being poured into clever copyright maneuvers by Australia and the U.S.

It is not some random commercial issue, it is a strategy.

Paywalls are fine for luxury goods, but preventing scientific knowledge from transferring to developing nations is improper and will wash away.

Quote from: Trade Runner on Today at 09:41:38 PM

What do you mean with "interact with the other chain"? Cross-chain trades? I wouldn't consider this as a usefull goal of a blockchain DNS. Namecoin can be mined together with all SHA 256 encoded currencies by the way, and a non-negligible percentage is mined on the Bitcoin Cash chain. Blockchain domains have their main use cases for projects with problems of seized domains through restrictive dictatorships. It's not the goal of the Namecoin project to overrule and to circumvent the applicable law of civilized states (what, by the way, was one of the reasons that the .bit domain resolution through the OpenNIC project has been dropped).

Like all coins, there are some features in Namecoin that do or don't appeal to some other group.

In this case, a currency / network made for pirate girl to offer science journals might have different parameters than the original namecoin.

So, for example, there could be a different block time, a free creation of .bit2 names if she finds some other way to limit spam, an organization of second level domains like .anthropology.bit2 or .biology.bit2, or any other features.

But it should have also the benefits which come with regular namecoin, such as high hashing power and the ability to interact with the original nmc .bit network if the person using that wallet wants.

Cross chain trades is trivial and requires some decentralization and doesn't add much.

Most importantly, she would actually attract use of her network. If she put out a simple browser, or partnered with mozilla or whoever, and had a full feature browser that seamlessly browsed between science journal network and icann network, with the ability to add other private networks at the discretion of users, she would easily have many thousands of users. Add a feature like the bat token used on the brave browser and you have the beginning of a human input coin network, going where mikhail sindeyev was heading with huntercoin, but taking the scenic route.

It would attract hostile attention from governments, and whoever tries to do it will probably be killed, but it would be interesting.