I completely agree that being free to access is critical, but my worry is that a large proportion of people downloading and not contributing may make it very expensive to put data on the Safe Network, as many farmers would only be able to contribute a fraction of their available storage resource before available bandwidth becomes a bottleneck.
My post here asks what levers could be used to address this if it became an issue. How could more people be encouraged to participate by farming, not just downloading even if farming rewards are not economically viable for them, so we don’t end up with a bandwidth constraint that may limit the usefulness of the network & centralise farming towards bandwidth-rich farmers?