We argue about the background color of a linked article with little resistance, so I think a post about general piracy within an article about academic piracy is relatively on-topic (but I know that is subjective).<p>I agree that the current journal&#x2F;paper fee is crazy, but to say that piracy is the &quot;obvious&quot; answer is short-sighted, in my opinion. I very much enjoy the conversation though.<p>My experience with academia is very limited, but I happily used sci-hub &amp; libgen when I was researching the Hierarchical Fair Service Curve paper.