Hm... Once in a while, I buy things that I previously downloaded. Not specialized scientific literature, I will never contribute to Springer's bottom line. But

Hm... Once in a while, I buy things that I previously downloaded. Not specialized scientific literature, I will never contribute to Springer's bottom line. But many books and films. Sharing is marketing. Microsoft executed this beautifully under Gates, this is the reason №1 they are so dominant now. Reviling sharing by relabelling it as pirating while still profiting from it on a different level is a good old strategy.