I’ve been thinking about how the existence of sites like this and SciHub might actually prolong the life of paywalled sites.

See, when a scientist publishes an article, their academic success is partially judged by how many people cite their article. If everyone stopped citing articles that were owned by shitty companies, researchers would be disincentivized from publishing there. But when someone puts it also to SciHub the researcher still gets the H-index stats

https://libguides.bc.edu/articleinfluence/hindex