These publishers are parasites that put a paywall between people and information.

Not only that, but information they've already paid for because they're US taxpayers and it's public research. How the hell public research is hidden from the public who paid for it, and this is considered acceptable, is beyond me. Aaron was absolutely in the right for making publicly-funded research findings publicly available! Such a shame the DOJ decided to "make an example out of him", but I've heard rumors that it's because he also uncovered a lot of other data from MIT servers that some people really didn't want anyone to see, that went beyond research, and the DOJ was covering for MIT. But who knows.