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If the law is there to help prosecute bootleggers, then why aren't the laws against bootlegging enough? The law against making copies of DVDs is superfluous, by your own reasoning. Why isn't a good idea to challenge laws like this?

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Sorry to have not been clear but I meant the laws around breaking the DRM/encryption - not the act of making the copy.

Bootlegging is one example of it's practical use.

You don't need to break any encryption to make a bitwise copy of a DVD.

Except he's circumventing the DRM in order to make fair-use backups.

Challenge everything. That is the basis of our legal system (not to be confused with EA who's motto is "Rip-off Everyone".) So if you feel something is unjust challenge it. And sometimes you just have no way around it other than to be taken to court or to go to court.

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