These social justice types and their supporters feel its their right to decide who should make a profit and who shouldn’t.
Modern Robin Hoods - take from the rich and give to the poor and they decide which is which. It’s amazing that he has any support here on FR other than sympathy for a wasted life. That support would doubtless evaporate pretty quickly if it was their business that was being hacked.
Just an observation on JSTOR - government funds are often used to generate the information, and government pays for access to the information for its employees. Cough up some moar, taxpayers.