You're completely off base with this. The DMCA is a bad law and needs to be repealed. IP litigation needs to be marched back into it's cave too.

This isn't about stealing Will Ferrel's next movie. It's about buying Will Ferrel's next movie and showing it on your ceiling in a player you made yourself. Or in your car, or under your pool, or on your Linux PC.

What the DMCA and the media groups who lobbied it into law have done is locked you into dictating how you can use and where you can use items you purchase from them.

Imagine if a 1957 Chevy came with the hood locked down, the wheels permanently installed and a sounds system that was considered "Intelectual Property". It would be illegal for you to change the oil, add a supercharger, put chrome wheels on it or get a third party radio and speakers. There wouldn't even be third party radios or speakers.

Essentially what has happened here is wrenches have been outlawed as circumvention devices to car manufacturer's IP. And it's wrong and it needs to change.