If someone buys a fake of a van Gogh and find out it's fake, they just lost millions of dollars of wealth. This metaphor seems inappropriate to apply to the typical ways people enjoy art.

> most human art derives from something more than the arrangement of pixels / bits

Many people think art should stand on its own, independent from the artist or the circumstances of its creation. Meaning or quality in art may be conveyed purely in bits even if it is the not individual bits that are meaningful.

> if we disregard this, we end up in a pretty shitty world

This is an inappropriate degree of moralizing. But I think it if we accept policing quiet enjoyment, that ends up in a pretty shitty world.