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I'm in the US, and the DMCA explicitly forbids it, but there's been some contrary rulings on this that make it a bit unclear. [1]

I am not a lawyer, so I'm not really sure how to interpret this stuff, but I don't know how tested the DRM parts of the DMCA have been tested .

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/07/court...

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Who really cares about DMCA? If you’re copying discs you bought and aren’t sharing those copies, who would even know you did it? I view it as more of a way to theoretically throw the book at someone caught sharing than a way to imprison people who make personal copies.

It matters for anti-circumvention, where they can go after people that make tools that allow you to make personal copies.

And how effective has it really been? All the usual tools are still out there, notably MakeMKV.

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