Medical Researchers Resort To File Sharing To Get Access To Journal Research

"[O]ne such file-sharing community...had over 100,000 registered users sharing scans and uploads of medical research reports from non-open journals via some basic forum-type software (so not really peer-to-peer... yet). The community...contained nearly 300,000 postings, with people requesting certain reports, and others delivering them. Apparently, the system was quite effective, with nearly 83% of requests for certain articles resulting in delivery of the requested article....[I]t should be noted that this particular forum apparently later did go behind a private wall...."