Muddist Point for week 10

In class Dr. He talked about Web Transaction Logs Studies. For privacy and business secret issue, most of these logs are not public, even for research purpose. I am concerning the fact that in this case, industry is probably going to lead in the field, not only information retrieval, but could also be observed in other domains, such as social network analysis, since they possess huge amount of data to conduct research study. So my question is that, how academia researchers deal with this situation to make the breakthrough?