Corps: “Instead of buying a hard copy you’ll get an ability to get to anything you want in the cloud.”
People: “Cool.”
Corps: “No money—no nothing.”
People: “It’s immoral, we’re going to pirate then.”

Really? You signed the contract, you idiots. That’s you who killed hard copies when you were so excited to press buttons instead of going to the store selling hard copies. It’s you who killed those stores, let alone you made the personnel lose their jobs. You paid for subscriptions. You.