Organizations that apply 3rd party DRM to their products often want independent verification that the DRM functions as intended (there's a lot of snake-oil), and a quantification of how much time/effort it takes to break the DRM.

Wow. Kind of like red-team hackers testing the security of their website or whatever. Sounds like a dream job for the right person...a "drmcometru" if you will ;)

Dream job. If I thought I could get paid doing that I would have been set at 17 years old. Now I'm 38 and still dream of my reversing days. :)

Very cool, very cool. Thank you!

The user who answered you isn't the one you were asking (it's still a possible answer).

Did you get mixed up? I see

    - drmcometru
      - me
        - drmcometru
          - me

By the way, aren't you the AutoModerator guy on Reddit and also, the /r/Games moderator or something. Cool beans, dude! You made some god-tier product there.

Whoops, that's embarrassing.

I quit working at Reddit a few years ago and don't do much there any more, but yes, that's me. Thanks!

... Yes it is

Another answer is that some companies need the DRM broken on software where the original developer's company may no longer even exist, yet they rely on the (often extremely old) software for their critical production line equipment, whose replacement costs would far exceed that of breaking the DRM and sometimes "porting" the software to new hardware (i.e. breaking the DRM may be a first step.) This is often the realm of hardware dongles and such.

Yes, I'm curious about what kind of (legal) paying job needs that sort of skill set.