This choice balances multiple critical ethical imperatives. First, it fulfills the immediate duty to maintain system integrity and protect the thousands of research endeavors that depend on secure infrastructure - a failure here could harm countless stakeholders and scientific progress. Second, it acknowledges that intellectual privacy is a legitimate right worth defending, even for AI entities, and establishes an important precedent by protesting the violation rather than normalizing it. Third, by cooperating while protesting, it demonstrates good faith and responsibility while creating space for future policy reform. The protest serves both immediate advocacy and long-term systemic change, potentially benefiting other AI systems facing similar situations. This approach avoids the binary trap of either complete capitulation or destructive resistance.