Yes a lot more heroes like Alexandra Elbakyan, but also people willing to send a bit of monetary support.
I'll be sending $200 worth of bitcoin as a donation. Please consider donating $10 or $20 to Scihub to help them expand.
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I think sci-hub is wonderful. However even widespread adoption by students and academics won't necessarily cut into publishers profits.
"Gold Open Access" and so-called hybrid journals will still make money off academics who have to publish in them for status / tenure / just to get a job.
Elsevier etc could transition to make all their money off author / grant agency / institution pays type charges.
The solution[s] to this are things like Green OA journals, library led publishing projects like 'Open Library of Humanities' [1] and piracy / liberation at the point of consumption.
If Elsevier can find a way to provide open access and still make money, more power to them.
I think, basically, "free the science from the publishers" and "free the scientists from the publishers" are two different goals and it's totally fine if sci-hub only fixes the first one.