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It's not like other types of authorship. The researchers who write these papers do not get paid for people obtaining and reading their research. Nor do their peers who review their publications for the journals, they do this as unpaid labor.

The free riders here are the middlemen who take their pound of flesh and hide almost everything behind paywalls and expensive subscriptions.

It's relevant to Alexandra Elbakyan's rationale for creating and maintaining the Sci-Hub project: https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2021/04/fighting-for-commun...