Sharing your art, or keeping it yours only is your choice indeed. But numbers are not art, and your desire to monopolize who gets to copy numbers or not demonstrates your desire to privatize numbers: which is tyranny.

You can request compensation for writing indeed, but you have to ask yourself if you are willing to censor others’ press to copy your writings. At what point are you willing to use violence to maintain that monopoly?

Publishers have already chosen to use the states to sue to slavery for those rents.