Truly, the only solution to these pricks will be a LOT more people like Alexandra Elbakyan.
I'll be sending $200 worth of bitcoin as a donation. Please consider donating $10 or $20 to Scihub to help them expand.
"Gold Open Access" and so-called hybrid journals will still make money off academics who have to publish in them for status / tenure / just to get a job.
Elsevier etc could transition to make all their money off author / grant agency / institution pays type charges.
The solution[s] to this are things like Green OA journals, library led publishing projects like 'Open Library of Humanities' [1] and piracy / liberation at the point of consumption.
I think, basically, "free the science from the publishers" and "free the scientists from the publishers" are two different goals and it's totally fine if sci-hub only fixes the first one.
That was not even close to the ending of Aaron Swartz.
But yes, keeping his name and cause alive would be a Very Good Thing.