Record companies and film studios have had to learn to live with internet piracy. ＿＿（26）＿＿ their best attempts to close sites or co-opt them, pirated copies of their wares are easily available. Increasingly, the ＿＿（27）＿＿ is true of scientific papers. On June 21st 2017, a court in New York awarded Elsevier, a big scientific publisher, $15 million in damages for copyright ＿＿（28）＿＿ by Sci-Hub and the Library of Genesis, two websites that offer tens of millions of scientific papers and books for anyone to download. Both sites are increasingly popular with scientists, who use them to ＿＿（29）＿＿ pricy paywalls and subscriptions. Alexandra Elbakyan, who ＿＿（30）＿＿ Sci-Hub in 2011, did not turn up for the trial, but did send a letter outlining her reasons for starting the site.