The US is effectively the only place in the world where circumventing DRM is actually illegal and prosecute-able, every other country has various exemptions and

The US is effectively the only place in the world where circumventing DRM is actually illegal and prosecute-able, every other country has various exemptions and bypasses that remove its teeth. Here in Canada for example, you can happily argue "I was doing it to learn how it worked" and fall under the education exemption, unless you're stripping DRM and actively selling the content or something similar. You should have a skim through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Laws