A user of torrentsite The Pirate Bay has 18.592 scientific articles published on the site. Greg Maxwell did this because the copyright had expired, but the publications only after payment are accessible.
The articles come from the Jstor database, which publications contains about many different areas of research in the science. The conscious articles by Maxwell uploaded were published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, but are currently only using Jstor to access it. Because this money requires per article, decided Maxwell the articles on The Pirate Bay, a file with a size of 32.5 GB. In addition, he shows in the torrentbeschrijving know articles on legal way to have obtained.
According to Maxwell, is his action an indictment of the scientific publishing system. Although scientific articles, mainly the goal to have colleagues in the same field to notify you of new results, there is need for access to these articles is often money to be paid. For example, the major scientific journal Nature, $ 32 per article. However, there are also magazines that all publications freely accessible.
There is in science a major focus on the publication of articles: there is often the status of a scientist of derived. Also many upcoming researchers publishing a number of articles is mandatory, before they can graduate.