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> I see no problem if someone requested you immediately copy all of your research.

Academia can be extremely competitive. Like, if a competing lab got ahold even of the title of your upcoming paper, they would and do rush to duplicate your results, and try to publish before you to get the scoop.

For that reason, I don't know if open access to everyone's hard drives would work.

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Perhaps it should be more cooperative.

I'd say "too bad" for slow researchers. If someone can reproduce your results and publish a quality paper before you, that is better for society.

Nobody gets to "own" an idea. This possessiveness and reputational greed is what is causing all of these problems.

In my experience as a researcher, this competitiveness and haste to publish leads very frequently to lower quality in the research. For a researcher's career is often more profitable to quickly publish a half-baked paper than ensuring that everything is correct and well explained. This is a quite difficult problem to solve.

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