baynole2@yahoo.com <baynole@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 1:41*pm, Little Luke <fjcam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is the maker of the gun responsible for its use?
>
> Something of a non sequitur.
>
> In this case, the software has no purpose or reason for being other
> than defeating the copyright protection program,& hence could lead to
> liability.

That depends. For example in some countries - like mine, The
Netherlands - there is fair-use copyright, which allows to make a copy
for the private use of the owner of the original media. Some audio/music
CDs have copy-protection [1], all video DVDs are encrypted which amounts
to copy-protection, etc., etc.. If I defeat the copy-protection to make
a copy for my own use, I am well within my legal rights. So the use of a
program like DVD Decrypter is fair and legal use.

[1] The term is "copy-protection", not "copyright protection". The
copyright may be 'protected' when there is no copy-protection and vice
versa.
For example the copyright (the better, more clear term is "author's
rights" [2]) of this posting is protected, but AFAIK the posting is not
copy-protected! :-)

[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author%27s_rights>