&gt; One of those rights is to sell it to big unproductive but powerful individuals&#x2F;corporations.<p>&gt; I pirate too, but I respect the ultimate creator&#x27;s right.<p>It may be the creator&#x27;s right, but it isn&#x27;t necessarily the creator&#x27;s will.  There are a lot of reasons to publish in particular journals, and restricted access to the published paper isn&#x27;t necessarily the desired effect, it may just be an unfortunate side effect.