Piracy

Not promoting this site but some good points are collected like:

Academic research, often carried out with taxpayer dollars, is disseminated through publication in scholarly journals. In recent years for-profit publishers such as Amsterdam-based Elsevier corporation have developed a strangle-hold on the business of scholarly publishing. By purchasing thousands of journals, relying on free labor from academics, and placing results of publicly-funded research behind paywalls Elsevier has increased the cost of scientific research and decreased our access to it.

https://www.change.org/p/elsevier-boycott-elsevier-and-support-affordable-open-access-scholarly-publishing

more here: https://torrentfreak.com/the-exploitive-business-model-of-academic-publishers-fuels-piracy-210227/