A possible setback for DRM in Europe

...and, AFAIK, the European style of copyright law says just as much, though it's in legalese and you wouldn't know it from reading the law without special training. But what I learned in a course at my university is that the law explicitly allows you to circumvent the heck out of any crap that prevents you from using a legally obtained copy of a "work". This, in my not-a-lawyer opinion, makes DRM null and void. Not exactly illegal, but unenforceable.

Another thing I learned at that course is that a license or a contract cannot contradict the law (the copyright act), which is rather obvious in retrospect - but the Windows EULA (for a common and convenient example) consist almost entirely of such clauses. Any of these clauses is thus just some ink on dead trees without any significance. All of them can be safely ignored. But people don't know the law and are easily intimidated and people in the Industry (you know who you are) exploit it without remorse.

This is at least the state for my particular country and YMMV. IANAL and stuff as well :)