Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter
The only "online piracy" I see here is when Elsevier demands US$30 from you to get a copy of a paper written by scientists paid for by your tax dollars, who <i>paid Elsevier page fees to publish it</i>.  Elsevier and similar companies are the thieves here, and they have a hell of a lot of nerve to be accusing scientists of "stealing" and "piracy" for working to create the very knowledge Elsevier shamelessly exploits.  (Even Elsevier's very name is a theft: they are attempting to free-ride on the goodwill of the Elzevir family of Renaissance publishers, who have no connection with them.)<p>Do they have the law on their side?  Yeah.  So did the Pope when he sentenced Galileo to life in prison for promoting heliocentrism.  That doesn't mean they're in the right; that means the law is in the wrong.