In a twisted sense, the shameless thuggery as you say, has now enabled people to mine / acquire information much easier since now if you want to bypass pay wall

In a twisted sense, the shameless thuggery as you say, has now enabled people to mine / acquire information much easier since now if you want to bypass pay walls, you have to do it for a lot less places than before. The ideas that power sites like sci-hub will only get more resilient, regardless (or because) of the laws. Kind of reminds me of how if you wanted basic info about any random person before the internet, one had to use a lot more resources to find such information and even then, you would have to first know where to look. Now you can pretty much get such information about a significant percentage of the global population with these three urls and some enumeration: http://graph.facebook.com/{{interger} http://graph.facebook.com/{{interger}} http://m.vk.com/id{{interger} http://m.vk.com/id{{interger}} http://blog.sina.com.cn/{{interger} http://blog.sina.com.cn/{{interger}}