This was in compliance with a court order. I, for one, am still relatively appreciative corporations can't go around willy-nilly refusing to obey legal orders from the government.

If you have a problem with specific orders of our government, the correct avenue of upset is with them, or, should they be unwilling to change their position, by voting.

The prospect of scihub dying is terrifying, and scihub helped to push in that direction.