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That's a USA problem. In most places, interoperability and backups are legally valid reasons to break both DRM systems and EULA's.

So "ignoring DRM" may bea reasonable strategy, but you need to work on your laws to ensure that things that are both socially accepable and morally good (such as breaking DRM to make backups) are not criminalized.



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