IANAL, but if you happened, purely by chance, to create a file that was bit-for-bit equal to a decrypted DVD, that would be fine (since it's practically impossi

IANAL, but if you happened, purely by chance, to create a file that was bit-for-bit equal to a decrypted DVD, that would be fine (since it's practically impossible to do, anyway). It's the intent that matters anyway. What the government has now is a stick they can hit people with (they had the stick already, now they have permission). Like speeding, if you rip your copy of E.T. you bought at Walmart and put it on the family's iPad so the kids be quiet, or by god you're going back to Winnipeg, nobody is going to be knocking on your door. However, if you start a site called www.dvdtomp4.com and offer a mail-in DVD-to-MP4 service, you could expect to receive an interesting visit at some point in the future.