Actually, given the recent holding of MDY v. Blizzard, if you violate the terms of the EULA, you are making an unauthorized copy when a program is copied into RAM.

Thus, when you violate the EULA, (according to the ridiculousness that is our current IP law,) you are violating the Copyright Act. Minimum statutory damages of $750. There's your statute.

thankfully, this decision is from a low level court and hinged largely on the classification of WoW as a license system and not a sale... still - the case law is out there.

The thing is, "hacking" the protections covered by the DMCA for your own personal fair-use is already legal. Unfortunately, this really only helps the .0001% of the population technologically proficient enough to whip up encryption breaking schemes on their own.

Even if circumvention of DMCA protections would be fair use if you did it on your own, if anyone "manufactures, imports, offers to the public, provides, or otherwise traffics" that technology to anyone else, its a violation.

Thus, if I discover a way to rip a copy-protected CD to my iPod, in a way that is perfectly legal and covered by fair-use, its not a problem.

If I give the program to someone else, I'm screwed... How's that for messed up application of the law?