Agreed. If they held on to it tightly for some bloody stupid reason or selfish motivation, then them holding on to it tighter will impact the rest of us zero.
If they just don’t know about dumping or have the means to, that’s fine.
If they know about it and refuse to do it based on some misguided thought that their riches will be diminished, they’re selfish arseholes(or idiots) and deserve no sympathy.
If you’re one of these people or encourage this behavior, neither do you.
Nor will I grant you any respect in any public forum so long as your argument revolves around “inner circles” akin to some secret society that aims to keep information away from people or archives, robbing the public. We should we care about these why?
The dumper of the roms should be applauded. He did a public service. those who aim to quash that ought to be ashamed.
And, as stated, collectors want the cart, the plastic, the item.
Does the ability to add sepia effects in After Effects change the value of your 8mm Bell and Howell video kit? No. So any justification for this ‘holding tighter’ is both silly and moot.