How does DRM actually affect the legal owner of the product?

Well when my DVD drive ate my Call of Duty 2 DVD, I had to send it back and wait 12 days to get a new DVD before I could play the game. I can't make a backup of the DVD as it uses copy protection. After 90 days a dead DVD starts costing me $10 + shipping, opposed to what it would cost to make a disk image and never use the DVD, or make my own backup.

I'm screwed becase Aspyr sees 1500 sales and 15,000 update downloads.

The point is that as long as society equates copying with free, we'll lose more and more rights.