I admit I'm not saying that ThePaperBay necessarily offers the right solution but I am refuting your claim that there isn't really a problem. The issue here is

I admit I'm not saying that ThePaperBay necessarily offers the right solution but I am refuting your claim that there isn't really a problem. The issue here is that there has always been a problem. Academic output should always have been available to anyone who wanted it _at a fair price_. Until electronic documents became so ubiquitous you could tollerate the constraints of publisher ownership because they helped overcome real problems of communication and physical distribution. The question is haven't we now reached the point where these problems have gone away?