If I can buy porn and Netflix accounts on the DMs, why can't someone sell subscriptions to EBSCO or JSTOR? I'm okay about being a college dropout on most days--but I totally miss being able to waste hours on obscure sociology articles and discontinued journals.
Supply and demand mostly? I'm talking out of my ass, but I reckon academic subscriptions are relatively expensive and generally paid for by one's employer/university (which is why they are expensive, because the actual service consumer isn't the one paying for it, so they don't give a shit about overpaying, and the vendor knows this.. but I digress), so there isn't much demand for unauthorized access. At the other end of the spectrum, porn subscriptions are relatively cheap and generally not paid for by one's employer (except for California public school teachers with 10+ years tenure), so there are lots of people looking for unauthorized accounts, and they are cheap enough that the porn companies can't justify spending any money trying to protect any individual account from being compromised. Also the raw numbers of porn accounts versus academic accounts has got to be astronomically in favor of porn, so there's just plain more opportunity.
But hell yeah, I would love access to all that shit, and Westlaw/Lexis and similar without it costing $75 every time you click something.