Actually, below are the exemptions straight from the horse's mouth
(http://www.copyright.gov/1201/)
And I am not a lawyer either, but since the encryption of these VOB
files are designed as a technical measure to protect copyright, and
your reason to bypass said protection is not among the exemptions, by
my reading you would be SOL...
But this probably belongs on -politics ;)
~ Daniel
(1) Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked by
commercially marketed filtering software applications that are
intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of
websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by
software applications that operate exclusively to protect against
damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet
locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to
prevent receipt of email.
(2) Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to
malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
(3) Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have
become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a
condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the
machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in
that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably
available in the commercial marketplace.
(4) Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook
editions of the work (including digital text editions made available
by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the
enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the
enabling of screen readers to render the text into a specialized
format.
Definitions. (1) "Internet locations" are defined to include domains,
uniform resource locators (URLs), numeric IP addresses or any
combination thereof.
(2) "Obsolete" shall mean "no longer manufactured or reasonably
available in the commercial marketplace."
(3) "Specialized format," "digital text" and "authorized entities"
shall have the same meaning as in 17 U.S.C. §121.
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