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Easiest thing is to borrow it from other students, you can try speaking to the professor/department head/chair but my experience with those people is they'll smile at you and act like they care (if you are lucky) then explain 'this is how it is'. You might get lucky and strike a chord with them but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Signing up for the course you are responsible for whatever materials are 'required' if you can get by without them great but if you can't you have to cave and buy/borrow/whatever to learn/do the work. If you can pass your tests/complete your assignments/projects you can't be failed for not owning a book. Depending on what the course/assignments you likely can find similar materials elsewhere or just use the 'old' version and do fine.
As for DRM textbooks I'd expect it to increase, book publishers have a great racket going at colleges pumping out new editions almost every year and often the schools/departments/professors go along with making the new edition 'required'. With ebooks they can pump them out faster, revise them faster, theoretically keep you from ever selling it/recouping any money back and dump another 'new' version out to get bought by the next term's students. That can be even easier if they tie in internet assignments/registration for every 'copy' so no one can use it more than once.
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