Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
Elsevier and others can go something themselves.<p>Their behavior over the last two decades has been little more than reprehensible rent-seeking. Whatever goodwill they had disappeared as they sapped with increasing ruthlessness the dollars of students and non-profits. See, e.g., one of many such figures: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lib.washington.edu&#x2F;scholpub&#x2F;images&#x2F;economics_graph.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lib.washington.edu&#x2F;scholpub&#x2F;images&#x2F;economics_grap...</a><p>It is absurd and dishonest to call Sci-Hub &quot;piracy&quot;, given that all of its contents were originally created and given away with the express goal of wide dissemination.