I knew that was the case. :)
But while a shovel is designed to dig holes it can also be used to commit murder. But until someone actually does this they are innocent in both the eyes of the law and the eyes of the lord. Just because it “can” be used in such a way to commit a crime, it does not mean that just owning a shovel already makes you guilty of a crime. Same as with a firearm. I think if you only use them as they are meant to be used in a legal way you can have a clear conscience.
That is not really analogous, for it seems that the issue with the DRM is that, according to the letter, it allows no right use of playing a DVD without the license (thus players themselves are required to have them), likewise the patent license for proprietary MM codecs. Which means that even if you have a licensed DVD player that can legally decrypt DVD's, yet the right to use use the multimedia codecs to play it also requires a license. Thus the offer of the ONEPLAY Codec Pack (a complete set of GStreamer plugins made available together with their respective patent licenses and provided by the most important multimedia patent holders) or player. Though their web site indicates they really are not very interested in selling to individual users.