You go where the money is. Infra isn’t free. Churches pass the plate every Sunday. Perhaps one day we’ll exist in a more optimal socioeconomic system; until then, you do what you have to do to accomplish your goals (in this context, archivists and digital preservation).

Or they know that those parties are going to hammer their servers no matter what so they will at least try and get some money out of it.

I think there is a big legal difference between helping preserve books and papers with little regard for copyrights, to then turn around and selling access to large companies.

So either these folks, who are admittedly living targets of all the world's copyright lawyers, have means to receive tens of thousands of USD anonymously and stealthily,

or they are totally immune to deanon / getting tracked down,

or they are stupid enough to allow their greed to become their downfall,

or this legend about underground warriors of light fighting against evil copyrighters is utter bullshit.

That made me chuckle, Enterprise Level Access. I mean as ai company, that’s incredibly cheap and instead of torrenting something, why get it. That price is just a fraction of a engineers salary.