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.
Your reasoning is the completely wrong approach! To do it the legal way, forget about this copyright-infringement-girl, search for scientific projects you want to fund, and then use Newton coin or create an own coin to fund that particular project. Then the "poor scientist" can legally buy the third party studies and his work doesn't have to be marked as "financed by pirated studies".
Namecoin itself is a nebulous project with great goals but no practical use, and not even an example of a practical use.
So the whole ".bit" extension thing is dead in the water then? Or is it simply not practical at the present time?
Indeed it's more or less dead, except for maybe 10 .bit websites with unique content, as you can see at the video intro of
namecoin.pro. But I'm gonna change that now.
Why do these bags of shit delete posts that are not their own.
Because somebody reported your posts as off-topic (indeed the post in itself has nothing to do with Namecoin, so there you go). The post I quoted above will probably be deleted as well.
I was the one who reported the permanent OT swearing and spamming of
BayAreaCoins filling up the threads. Thanks to the mod this thread got finally readable again!