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One should also note that Aaron did it to share scientific knowledge, meta did it to generate more profit
update based on comments: perhaps better to say probably share and and/or gain access to scientific data for non profit research purposes
There's also a decent case to be made that he wasn't planning on sharing it at all. He might have just been using the articles, which he had permission to access, to do research.