[ENEMY STATE], as you put it, can already harvest most of everyone's (including the US') published research via Sci-Hub, and probably some similar projects. A n

[ENEMY STATE], as you put it, can already harvest most of everyone's (including the US') published research via Sci-Hub, and probably some similar projects. A nation-state actor could probably run their own internal Sci-Hub equivalent that uses stolen credentials etc if they wanted/needed to. Published research already is de facto public, the question is just about whether we want to make those people who access it criminals, to oversimplify a bit. I'm a bit worried by your semi-nationalist attitude, but I suppose that is besides the point of this comment.