> Someone needs to rent and service the servers, update the software, bandwidth costs money, etc.. Scientific papers use approximately zero bandwidth. As a po

> Someone needs to rent and service the servers, update the software, bandwidth costs money, etc.. Scientific papers use approximately zero bandwidth. As a point of reference, if I hosted such a website on my home internet connection I would be paying approximately 0.00013 cents per upload. Even users downloading millions of papers would cost me less than a coffee. Setting up and managing a proportionate payment system would cost more than just eating the bandwidth costs would.