> But so does employment, so does freelancing, so does nearly every business ever.

Sure, capitalism is fucked up all the way through.

If and when you get it to the point where people can negotiate from position of equal power (also in all those other areas, yes), then I could take your ethical point seriously.

As it is, the companies that get harmed by piracy of the kind that DRM prevents are parasites on society, and the notion that the deal that they force on the rest of us though their position of economic dominance is some kind of "social contract" is laughable. Which is exactly why piracy is so prevalent - if it really were a social contract, people wouldn't do it in droves.