How much effort they went into selecting that particular set of bits is of no consequence to the state afterward. If someone made a million dollar machine that lights a flame, it does not make subsequent flames lit from the original flame any more valuable. Same goes for air or water, which are all deadly important, but as they are also virtually infinite in supply, they have no cost. Nestle is of course trying to change that with water.

I don't owe artists any royalties just because they say so. If they demand a kiss they won't get it either. I won't be bound by arbitrary restrictions around the physical matter in my possession.