&quot;I am poor&quot; is a poor moral justification to pirate software, movies &amp; books. Software, movies and books are written and funded by private individuals, and if you are pirating entertainment its wrong. I&#x27;m not the moral police, but &quot;I&#x27;m poor&quot; isn&#x27;t a very good excuse.<p>The stand I take with Scientific Papers is much different - these papers are backed by institutions which are commonly tax-payer funded or non-profits. As a citizen, you have already paid for the funding of this research and not being able to access that data doesn&#x27;t seem fair.<p>It&#x27;s like if you paid, before hand, to see a movie created, but never allowed to watch it.