[matheusmoreira]

> our extremely expensive contracts with publishers/journals were to support the complex infrastructure required to maintain a service like that

> Hosting costs, as shown by Sci-Hub, are negligible

Yes. The truth is these problems and costs are created by the copyright industry. Since copying is illegal, they have set themselves up as the only legal source for this material and that requires a lot of storage and bandwidth.

All they have to do is place their copyrighted works in the public domain. The storage and distribution problems will solve themselves immediately and at zero cost to them. People will literally do their work for them.