[chris0x00]

IANAL and things may have changed, but it was my understanding that having a copy protection mechanism, even a simple one, gives them better claim to DMCA protection of their content should someone do something they'd like to discourage. "Your honor they read our source code and stole our private key to break the encryption of our protected data" sounds better than "they downloaded the data we gave them"

[jonknee]

It's all pretty ridiculous considering it's a government owned corporation. They should not be obfuscating anything.