Although everyone seems to celebrate it, I feel a little uneasy about this.<p>The whole publishing scam is <i>not</i> about giving (or restricting) access from research to peons, it is to justify sucking the money of public institutions.<p>When the situation sucks for people, they get motivated to try to change the system. It is already hard enough for people to try to change things, because research is hard enough, and then if you start to refuse publishing in unethical journals the next idiot is going to do it as well as you would.<p>Comparatively, many people are for the status quo regarding copyright in general because they know very well that piracy is an option. At a RMS talk, the (university!) crowd mostly unanimously cheered when he said &quot;yes piracy&quot; and booed when he said &quot;... thus we have to change copyright&quot;. He was then asked &quot;but what if hollywood disappeared with the change?&quot;.