The students who pay for the academic journals, in the manner of university fees, etc., get free access to said journals through their university library. You

The students who pay for the academic journals, in the manner of university fees, etc., get free access to said journals through their university library. You seem to be arguing, if I understand you correctly, that the academic journals ought to be free to all-- which destroys their business model. I have close relatives who have edited academic journals, and I can assure you, there is an enormous amount of work involved. Regarding "Faust", do you know of anyone who has attempted to put "Faust" behind a paywall? I doubt it; if they did, they'd have little success, as "Faust" is in the public domain (except for recent translations, naturally). The question you should be asking yourself is: if all content is going to be free, who is going to pay for the production of content? At the moment, your argument seems to be that content should be free because you don't want to pay for it. While, as you indicated in your comment above, this attitude may be commonplace in 14 year olds, but is not the basis for a sustainable society.