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almost every researcher in CS flaunts copyright, posting their papers on their own websites

Many journals explicitly allow you to distribute a “preprint” of your journal articles on your personal website. For example, the Elsevier policy states that authors retain:

the right to post a pre-print version of the journal article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites for scholarly purposes