&gt; unjust illegitimate laws created to serve a monopoly<p>It’s not unjust illegitimate laws, it’s a largely valid contract you entered into and by which you are very naturally bound. There’s nothing morally wrong about “don’t use this access we give you to download everything”.<p>If your laws are, for whatever reason, unjust and illegitimate, then fix that instead of fighting against those laws by downloading papers from Elseviere o.O<p>&gt; Why comply with a framework designed not for your benefit or societies benefit but for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly on others peoples labor, socializing cost and individualizing profit.<p>I don’t get what you’re trying to say. Are you saying the profit from scientific work lies solely or even largely in bulk access to the papers produced by that work?!<p>&gt; Laws are not created for the people and by the people, they are made by corrupted individuals for those with the most wealth and power<p>If that is the case, then this is squarely the fault of “the people” to allow that to happen.<p>&gt; complying with them is no better than complying with any other sort of violent oppression<p>This is not about complying with laws but complying with a not morally outrageously wrong contract between two private entities.<p>You are trolling, right?