Yea but the thing is, the amount of money you would have spent on DRM should be compared to the money you're gonna lose as soon as the product launches but this

Yea but the thing is, the amount of money you would have spent on DRM should be compared to the money you're gonna lose as soon as the product launches but this isn't easy to calculate. If you take a look at movies for example, as soon as the DVD/BluRay for a movie comes out, you'll see it on file sharing sites on the very first day itself with DVDRip/BRRip in the title. So, my point is, you spend money on DRM but your media gets pirated as quickly as DRM-free media. Maybe for some reason, your DRM-protected media doesn't get pirated as quickly but takes a couple days but that doesn't mean that during those days that people actually bought your stuff! It might mean that nobody bought it so there was nobody to share it. Or it might just mean that only people who always buy legit media bought it because I guarantee ya that if the media is popular, there are people who wait for it to arrive on file sharing sites and they'll never buy it unless it doesn't hit the scene for more than a few months. So, the real thing to consider is money spend on DRM vs money lost on first sales because the rule is: If it's popular, it will be distributed illegally!