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Ever watched animals just out of the womb, fighting for a place at their mothers breasts? There is nothing to be imprinted, nothing to be learned, pure instinct -- they will defend their place (or they will die, or at least grow up to be weak and small). As you so aptly demonstrate, looking out for your own interest is "built-in". You are not really trying to share what is yours (may I suggest you go to work for free, that would be a selfless act) you want to share what belongs to someone else. You are doing it because of what you think is in it for you.
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By that your argument we're no more than children, or acting like children. Sharing and looking out for the common good of our group, are values that some of us obtains the older we grow. Many people do philantrophic work, and while their selfinterest might be served in the sense that they get a sense of fullfillment, they aren't really looking out for their own interests.
Pretty sure that Giggleton isn't looking out for his own self interest, he can download whatever he wants for free, that train has left the station. Instead he's arguing for his ideology. Are they the same, no, while connected ideology is also about what people consider the common good for us as a group.
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Copyright is not responsible for DRM. If copyright was abolished, DRM could (and probably would) still exist. DRM is used to enforce copyright, but copyright isn't necessary for DRM to exist. Maybe if copyright hadn't existed in the first place no-one would have invented DRM, but if copyright had never existed, we'd be living in a much different place and many things would be different
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Can you clarify this? Because to me it looks very much like your making an argument for how DRM exists because of copyright. Maybe if you provide examples of how DRM would exist without copyright?