Theory 1-----John is trying to figure out how best to monetize this achievement, which in his mind means finding some way to prevent it from being copied and shared for free (thereby drastically reducing the number of people who would have to purchase it), and he hasn't figured out (in his own mind anyway) the best way to get maximum money out of this. He has apparently said as much that this is his big concern that it will end up being shared around for free, and these days it is a pretty legitimate concern and once the video is out there, if that were to happen, there is no way to undo it, you have forever lost your opportunity to approach it a different way. I suspect John has just been looking for someone to buy the rights outright so that he is guaranteed whatever sum was agreed upon and all the risk goes to somebody else and as of yet just hasn't found a buyer for the price he wants or thinks it is worth. This is the same thing people do with nice cues, nice paintings, cars, whatever. If you aren't desperate you hold out for a buyer at what you think is a fair price and sometimes that can take several years, especially for things like this.
Theory 2-----There is this big well orchestrated conspiracy among quite a number of respected honest people to fake a relatively obscure record. That nasty conspiracy of fakery involves Bob Jewett, several BCA officials (Rob Johnson and Shane Tyree), Doug Desmond (the racker for the whole run), a number of in person witnesses, a number of other viewers of the video of the entire run, and others. All of them are liars and cheats and frauds, as proven by their lying and cheating and fraud in this big well orchestrated conspiracy they are carrying out. And they are being liars and cheats and frauds even though there doesn't appear to be any real motivation for any of them to lie, cheat, or commit fraud about this that anybody can see but they are putting their reputations on the line anyway for the sh!ts and giggles or because they are just the lying, cheating, fraudulent kind of people deep down inside and just hid it so well all their lives that we never got to see it until now and it just so happened to come out in all of them at the same time even though they all have nothing to gain and lots to lose.
So either John is trying to maximize the money he can make from this, even if he is misguided about the best way to do that, or Bob Jewett and quite a number of other respected people are lying and helping to commit this conspiracy of fraud and putting their reputations on the line for the sh!ts and giggles when they have lots to lose and nothing to gain. It is extremely clear which scenario is simpler, and more likely, and best fits Occam's razor, and it isn't the one you are suggesting.
That aside, I think you need more than "I haven't personally seen the video therefore it couldn't have happened" before you literally call the likes of Bob Jewett (not to mention all the others) a liar, cheat, and fraud, yet that is precisely what you are doing, literally.
You are an intelligent guy and are almost always on the right side of things but I think your misguided bias is getting the best of you on this one, that bias being (as per your numerous and past vehement posts) that you refuse to believe that this record could ever be broken and as great as he was you had Mosconi as some kind of inhuman god who you could never in your wildest imagination ever conceive that he could possibly ever be surpassed by anybody ever. That is what is really behind your inability to be reasonable here IMO, and even if you can't change those biases and how you feel about things surely you can see that calling someone as respected as Bob Jewett literally a liar and fraud is a more than unreasonable given all the circumstances until and unless additional and sufficient evidence were to come in that would warrant those accusations but as of now they aren't even close to warranted.