Circumvention of DRM is illegal or at least very much frowned-upon in many jurisdictions, while research on how to produce better DRM is not.
Framing it as "we broke DRM, isn't that great?" would be like framing a paper about a more effective silencer as "we made it easier to get away with murder, isn't that great?" (when instead it could be about "we made our special forces' jobs safer").
Plus, research papers in technical fields should try to be neutral, not a place for political activism.
Framing it as "we broke DRM, isn't that great?" would be like framing a paper about a more effective silencer as "we made it easier to get away with murder, isn't that great?" (when instead it could be about "we made our special forces' jobs safer").
Plus, research papers in technical fields should try to be neutral, not a place for political activism.