I'm not sure if this has been suggested, it probably has but I'll throw it out there anyway and hopefully something like this is added in future. A member has to make a certain amount of posts to download a resource.
I'm not sure, can it? Edited: Edited out text I thought this was the multiple file suggestion i made.
Well downloading is a user group permission, so you could simply promote someone and give them download permissions. (Per category permissions have been discussed elsewhere.)
