"Most papers are now freely available somewhere on the Internet, or else you might choose to work with preprint versions." This is a huge win for proponents of

"Most papers are now freely available somewhere on the Internet, or else you might choose to work with preprint versions." This is a huge win for proponents of free information sharing like Scihub and others. Germany's argument seems to basically boil down to, make us a favorable deal or we'll just pirate or obtain from other sources and Elsevier will lose out completely. Brilliant! I love their boldness and willingness to have some balls to fight for science instead of corporate greed in this negotiation.