The anti-circumvention rules came in with the 2012 amendments to the act, and at the time there were many requests to make exceptions for the anti-circumvention laws. In fact, there were very few exceptions that are in the law.
For sure, I remember testifying to a committee exactly like this for the 2012 act that there was a problem for archives in not being able to circumvent a digital lock to carry out essential preservation activities For us, that is the issue. It's something we are allowed to do in the act, but because it sometimes involves circumvention of a digital lock, we cannot carry out that essential function. We are losing essential historical materials because we cannot circumvent in order to carry out an otherwise allowed act.