the absurd part is that researchers and peer-reviewers often don’t even get paid for their work.
the privately owned journal sacks all the profit.

in my opinion, the universities and public libraries should take it on them to publish their own journal. this makes sense since it is already part of the university’s job to distribute knowledge (by educating students). and a journal is just that: a way to distribute knowledge.

Annas archive is also good. If it still exists, I haven’t checked in a while and I recall them having some issues

Just make sure you avoid getting in trouble by using the facebook strategy of downloading so much that they shrug their shoulders instead of prosecuting

Over the last few years, my pirating became minimal, only a few times a year, when I couldn’t find it on streaming.

I find myself going back to pirating recently, for the simple reason that I WANT to screw over these propagandistic megacorps in every way possible. Fuck them, I’m not paying for it, I’m stealing it, and feeling really good about it.