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"DRM as just a hassle for sharing a copy with friend" made me think of it in broader context - it seems to be a "security theater": producing a false sense of security at the expense of inconvenience (cf. airport security checks, see the Bruce Schneier for further information). The worst side of _this_ security theater is that inconvenience is imposed to users, while false sense of security is felt by distributors.
Given the impossibility of banning personal computers from use, perfect DRM won't exist, so the only upright way of dealing with this problem is a sound business model for public domain (or similarly unrestricted) works.
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