using information access hubs like SciHub, LibGen, and torrenting are illegal but arguably morally defensible under philosophies that are not well articulated or evenly distributed yet. our societal attitudes towards copyright + information-scarcity will be seen as a dark age
in a scarcity-based economic paradigm, knowledge is priced in a zero-sum competitive environment. but in an abundance-based economic paradigm, where everyone has their needs and desires abundantly, preponderantly met, spreading knowledge has maximum deep benefit; hoarding knowledge is harmful to some and therefore to all
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space…”