In Belgium at least it is illegal to circumvent copy protection. This isn’t even exclusive to the US, so I’m not sure where you got that idea from. So it is perfectly legal here to rip a cd from the public library but not necessarily for a Blu-Ray you bought economie.fgov.be/nl/…/privekopie-en-reprografie blog.iusmentis.com/…/mag-dvds-digitaliseren-auteu…