Ok, I’m not sure if you’re for real, but I have a feeling you’re one of the dudes with the writers/actors strike and I have to say that as someone who hates barriers to knowledge I also respect your struggle to keep doing what you love. I just feel like studios are getting too greedy on both ends in an attempt to prop up unsustainable profit margins, thus making it hard to afford services and hard to live on the wages they pay.
/rant That said, scientific paper publishers are another beast and the worst offenders (e.g. see a paper related to climate change for 48 hours, 40$) many researchers don’t get paid to write the paper or even pay to have it published, only to see it paywalled, so nobody will even read it legally, so they can oversharge universities. /rant off
Most of the ones I know will thank you if you just find their work and don’t add one more email to their already full mailbox 😎 it’s another culture.