I myself would never openly tell my students should get their copies of textbooks (for the few classes where I use textbooks instead of public domain texts) for free from online sites rather than shelling out scarce money to publishing houses who rip them off and make massive profits. . . But hypothetically, if they were to go to certain sites, they might just find what they're looking for. . .
@GregSadler Researchers and students shouldn't use anything like Sci-Hub either to access millions of research articles paywalled by commercial publishers with 30–40% profit margins due to the fact they don't pay the authors even though the actual research is funded by taxpayers.
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