Last month, the Software Preservation Network (SPN) made arguments in support of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act amendment that would allow libraries to bypass digital locks on video games so that academics and credentialed researchers could study them. But the games industry is fighting back.
What if they just… lied? Like is there really some 70 year old guy on the ethics and inventory committee going through the storage unit to make sure you have a physical copy of ET for the Atari?
It would probably jeopardize their funding and maybe even the entire organization if anyone were to ever find out.
Copyright troll businesses are a thing, so probably covering as much of their ass as they can.
If they actually want to publish research they need legal rights to break the DRM
Copyright mafia is really incredibly asinine about it, normally people are protected by statistics and inertia somewhat, but once the mafia is aware of a particular case they immediately go for a throat.