Okay I'm brainstorming (again) and was wondering if I created a web page with a few ads and relevant content (scraped, content rewriter) as I have a way to get people to the page and would provide the password to the site.
Would this work (would I get credit and would the ads display)?
Yes, in adsense you have the ability to allow the AdSense crawler to access pages that are behind a login. Just login to adsense and then click here and you'll be able to set it up:https://www.google.com/adsense/list-auth