Yeah but so is speeding on the freeway. People do that all day long and never gets ticket. Other times, people actually get arrested they were speeding so fast. So I ask again, did something actually happen? Did the FBI/whomever show up at your door and someone went to prison? Or is it just that format shifting got deemed illegal and now we're all running around scared?
This is different, because we don't have lasting evidence (yet). If circumvent a B-Ray's copy protection some person knowing I ripped them could still report me years after.
A collection of media, that was conveyed as a purchase, was really a DRM locked rental. After the Microsoft auth servers were taken down, all the music went up in smoke. I was hundreds of dollars poorer and nothing to show for it.
After that, sure, I'll buy tickets to attend shows and other 'people doing cool stuff on stage'. But buying DRM music, videos, and games are out of the question. I'm not going to throw more money to a badly described rental that's masquerading as a sale.
Now, I have bought music and videos in recent years. But those discs go to my reader and converted to their respective formats for Jellyfin/Navidrome handling. But in 20 years, those discs will still work. The DRM crap won't. (And if Microsoft can't manage to keep up DRM servers for a decade or longer, I'd argue nobody can.)
What happened?