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@frahse: referring to the examples you gave - alas you're absolutely right; there are enough people out there trying to screw one if they can and it's rather hard to guess who in advance. Appearance, sex, ethnicity or age doesn’t help with it. Unfortunately HansTWN is right too. The difference between post and presale measures is a significant factor in this game.
The point we will always come to a halt at is, that DRM doesn't manage rights but restrictions. Thus it is not able to take motivations into account. The objectively very same activity may be legal or not depending on who undertakes it and why s/he does it. Whilst this is a basic aspect checked when determining if a criminal act has been tried or accomplished, no DRM system is capable to do it, because it's a case-specific decision with attributes to be checked which are out of range of an automated system. Sad but true. The only possible solution I can think of would be to sell not files but physical data carriers - maybe SD-card alikes with RO circuitry. The item being legal proof of possession. Like CDs kept although you transfer the music as mp3 to your players.
The so-called argument used by some people that all this anti-DRM arguing is useless because the average consumer doesn't care is worthless, because as it's been repeatedly pointed out, when the shit hits the fan, they start to care, alas too late. A wonderful case-study of such a widespread fan-hit can be done by STFW for "Avatar" and "blue-ray"
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