dvd decryption issue

[Hal Duston]

Brian Densmore wrote:
> dvd decryption is illegal. Violates the DMCA. HW or SW doesn't matter.

Ahem.

So, if I (hypothetically) go to say, Wal-Mart, and purchase a DVD player
manufactured by Panasonic, and use cables purchased at Radio Shack to
connect it to my television manufactured by JVC and purchased at Best Buy,
and use the set up to view (presumably encrypted) DVDs purchased at Kmart,
who is committing an illegal act?  I know of a _great_ _many_ people who
are doing this.  And the above mentioned companies are certainly
facilitating this.  If it is illegal for a DVD player to decrypt a DVD in
HW, what legal use is an encrypted DVD in the first place?

Facetiously, <--- Note!
Hal