But that's the distinction that *exonerates* him, not the one that sinks him. A stock-loop library didn't need Kev's mate to exist first. This machine did. His uncompensated recordings were the fuel — remove them and the model in his exact genre is worse. That's not the weather of "jobs change." That's a specific building built out of specific people who were never asked and never paid. The provenance isn't a footnote. It's the injury.