> Personally, I find the Elseveir boycotts by Germany and Sweden to be more inspiring, as those represent large groups of individuals trying to enact change thr

> Personally, I find the Elseveir boycotts by Germany and Sweden to be more inspiring, as those represent large groups of individuals trying to enact change through more principled means. Now that's a novel take IMO. Imagine that the U.S. had some zany law that required publicly funded research to be licensed such that digital articles were freely redistributable. In that universe Scihub would be engaged in legal behavior that is not principled in your opinion. In such a universe, explain the principle to me.