Marketplace Idea: Sell peer reviewed scientific journals & other articles (books, etc) via bounty.

If someone could provide a marketplace that would allow individuals to set bounties for specific articles such as "I will pay $1 for the full article of "Evidence for Direct Hydride Delivery from Formic Acid in Transfer Hydrogenation"", when the bounty gets sufficiently high, some individual will provide that article and they get the total bounty/reward for everyone who wanted that article offered. So, if 3 people want an article, and they are willing to pay $1 each, the person who provides the article gets $3.

Additionally individuals who can provide science articles from places like JSTOR, Nature, etc can list them for sale for a price they are willing to sell them for, and of course the price will be dictated by the market. So a going rate that might lead to the article being sold a few times might become something like $0.10 to $0.50 for the article to be sent to the other person. This is huge though - many college going individuals would be happy to share the hundred or so articles they likely have on their computer or easily available to them for $100 or more in profit. They could upload all of these articles onto the marketplace anonymously, list their bitcoin address, and the rest would be automated.


Comments


[5 Points] None:

I think this a) would get a lot of heat, databases have deep pockets and a vested interested in monopolizing the sharing of their knowledge (e.g. look at Aaron Swartz's tragic story and there wasn't even proof that he was trying to profit from it, and likely wouldn't considering his ideological leanings) and b) goes against the philosophy that many share regarding the freedom of information and knowledge, nevermind the fact that there are many clearnet resources where people share articles without attempting to profit off of it, including a number of subreddits.

Maybe I'm idealistic, but I don't think this would work.

Also, if you have actually used databases, you'll notice that they often watermark where and when the article was downloaded which could put noobs entering the "game" at risk of being outed.*

*Outed could result in expulsion or criminal charges.


[2 Points] s7w7:

All you would need is to be a student, right? I have access to JSTOR and all that. I would say I'd do it, but we all know what happened to Aaron Swartz when he tried to distribute stuff like that.


[1 Points] GeneralStarkk:

I would love to see something like this, in fact I think I'd go out of my way to donate to the site if nothing else. However; if the site even gains popularity is another question that I'm not sure I can't answer.


[1 Points] roionsteroids:

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