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If DRM prevented piracy (it does not) and did not impede legitimate use (it does) you would be correct.
However, DRM does not prevent piracy. See Harry Potter. See every public domain book that is legitimately scanned and shared -- it's just as easy with a new release; the only differentiation is in the choices of the person with the scanner
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If that were the standard, then we should just give up on enforcing any laws against theft. After all, there have been laws against theft since time immemorial, and people still steal.The purpose of antitheft measures is to reduce it to a socially tolerable minimum, not eliminate it altogether. So too the purpose of anti-piracy laws. Anti-theft laws and practices, by the way, also inconvenience honest people , but we put up with the inconveniences precisely because they allow for functioning of modern society.