The article says that's how many people have signed up with an academic email address. Think about that...I would never in a million years sign up for a piracy

The article says that's how many people have signed up with an academic email address. Think about that...I would never in a million years sign up for a piracy site with such an important email address that's publicly tied to my reputation. So if 600k people have done that, the number in total must be absolutely colossal.