There was a courtcase a few years ago, in France, where a consumer was sued for copying a movie from DVD to VHS, in order to use it in a video player at his mothers place.
So his mother told on him or what? :laughing:
I totally fail to see how this is even gray zone of piracy.
As for working around copy protections, this is done automatically by quite alot of hardware and software today, so what can a user do? My old plextor drive happily ignores most CD copy protection schemes that were popular for a while, my XBMC installation automatically works its way around various schemes of DRM etc.