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Some people have the personality trait of loving to build collections or archives. Either for idealistic reasons (knowledge deserves to be free) or just because it's fun.
When that personality trait intersects with technical ability, we get projects such as the Internet Archive, Archive Team, Library Genesis, etc. There is no reason to assume state sponsorship, and 2/3 of those definitely aren't state sponsored.
Although I suppose that is predicated on seeing Russia as the enemy. Strangely not always the norm these days in the new world.
Do you have any evidence that pirating is destroying industries? My guess is I can find the majority of this release by anna's archive on some combination of the pirate bay and the soulseek, or private music trackers. And yet, Spotify is still a thriving company, as is the entire music industry as a whole. There's even room for competing streaming services like Tidal and Youtube Music.
Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220301004131/https://sci-hub.r...
> Alexandra Elbakyan: Why Stalin is a God
The rest of my comment still stands.