The Internet Archive, Library Genesis, the Wikimedia Foundation, local libraries, and countless other organizations are providing an invaluable service by maintaining public access to everything from research papers to 90s PC games to books. SciOp is another project working to mirror "cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage" through torrents, and the Library Genesis Project (LibGen) uses torrents to distribute and archive its millions of books and research material. You can also donate to organizations that are focused on information access, like the Internet Archive, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, archive.is, or the Wikimedia Foundation.