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Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: In increasing numbers, researchers around the world are turning to Sci-Hub, the controversial website that hosts 50 million pirated papers and counting. Now, with server log data from Alexandra Elbakyan, the neuroscientist who created Sci-Hub in 2011 as a 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan, Science addresses some basic questions: Who are Sci-Hub's users, where are they, and what are they reading? The Sci-Hub data provide the first detailed view of what is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library. Among the revelations that may surprise both fans and foes alike: Sci-Hub users are not limited to the developing world. Some critics of Sci-Hub have complained that many users can access the same papers through their libraries but turn to Sci-Hub instead -- for convenience rather than necessity. The data provide some support for that claim. Over the 6 months leading up to March, Sci-Hub served up 28 million documents, with Iran, China, India, Russia, and the United States the leading requestors.
but if all scientific papers should be released for "public good" Why would someone invest time and money in doing the research? You are better off letting someone else do it. Scientific papers are not created to be shared, they are created to make money.
It would be like saying "For the "public good" we are taking all food produced to give out to everyone who needs" Well, people will stop making food then, no one is going to work and get nothing back, even if you claim it is for "Public good" I am sure Burnie Sanders would disagree, since he is a socialist and socialists live in a dream world.