[cooper12]

I'm assuming you're thinking is that he was going to distribute them. While his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto [0] might support that, it's just one possibility. Or he might have analyzed the papers for personal research, as he did in the past:

> A few years ago, he downloaded a significant portion of the articles on the Westlaw legal-research database in order to analyze their sources of funding, in the hope of determining whether economic interests affected their conclusions. He gave the data to a Stanford law student, and she published an article in the Stanford Law Review based on his findings. [1]

[0]: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/requiem-for-a-d...