Source: My partner is a librarian at a smaller university, this happens every few months and they lose access to major online platforms for days if not longer every time.
There clearly is blame put on the proxies
> it [the proxy] is a major headache that can get the whole university locked out
Whether either the practice of lock out should be blamed for immoral licensing or the proxy servers blamed for immoral illicit access, is not properly explained here.
Just because you think in categories of 'blame' doesn't mean everyone else does.
For some people there is a difference between causality and guilt.
edit: oh http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
New torrents seem to be appearing at the rate of 14 per month = 700GB/month = 2.7Mbit/s. For the majority of people, I'd say it is beyond any one person being able to mirror the lot.
It seems like an application for a Freenet type system, but one where the files are guaranteed to never be deleted, even if they are rarely accessed.
If someone wants to donate IT skills and coding time (this is a thing that I've read several times in HN), perhaps it would be great that someone puts together a system that takes a PDF, OCRs it when necessary, detects images and graphs, and uses all of that to create a light version of the document (html/latex/markdown/whatever); and then puts all of those TB through that tool.
The reduction in storage and network costs might be a lot more than a standard donation!