<p>^^^Yeah, that's the site I was thinking of, but couldn't remember what it was called.</p>
<p>I'd like to think that we'd eventually be able to get to a stage where all such academic research related intellectual information is distributed for free over the internet... but that's not going to happen overnight. </p>
<p>We came very close to having the human genome code be a commercial 'pay for access' service, but thankfully enough smart folks realized that we just couldn't let that happen. By making the whole human (and most other sequenced) genome available for free to anyone over the internet, it basically destroyed the prospects of those that wanted to make money selling the information to others.</p>