>I have met quite a number of professors who would surely expel me from net university if I had scanned an expensive textbook and shared it with other students, yet they magically support SciHub
With textbooks a reasonable amount of the money goes to the authors. Those professors write the textbooks and will lose out if you pirate them.
It is not so with papers though. The professors who write them lose little if anything when you pirate their research - those who lose money (elsevier and co) in that case are (rightly) perceived as not deserving anyway.
With textbooks a reasonable amount of the money goes to the authors. Those professors write the textbooks and will lose out if you pirate them.
It is not so with papers though. The professors who write them lose little if anything when you pirate their research - those who lose money (elsevier and co) in that case are (rightly) perceived as not deserving anyway.