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We should be clear on this: In the U.S. the only cases that have been brought to court have been those where someone publicly released DRM-cracking information, and those where someone has used a DRM cracker and subsequently made available DRM-cracked files (like music) at reduced or no price. The only thing that has led to court cases so far has been doing something that can potentially or has been demonstrated to cost another property owner to lose money.
This is why no one in the U.S. who cracks DRM, just so they can archive their own copies of a file, has to fear prosecution for it. However, if somehow one of their cracked files got out into the public, they could be held liable to the full extent of the law.
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