Rights holders have been trying to get rid of sites like the pirate bay for more than a decade, and if anything PB is easier to find and more reliable to use than ever before. If they really want change, it's time for them to dispassionately consider their situation. The way to "beat" piracy is to consider it as a competitor, which it is. When I was a kid, everyone downloaded raw mp3s and now that number is a fractio…
We screwed content makers with mp3s, which allowed publishers to follow suit. We changed the paradigm. This is a bit harder because schools pay for content not the researchers directly. It’ll be harder to force change.