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Streamed digital media can be copied trivially, you're just not allowed to.

I'm not even allowed to tell you how to do it.

Well, only for the one protected by DRM.

Nit: It's not protected by DRM, it's protected by copyrights. It's still against the law in most places to violate copyrights, even if there's no DRM involved.

But it's equally important that where the copying would otherwise be allowed under copyright rules, anti tampering DRM laws (like DMCA 1201) make it criminal to perform or aid that copying.

That's why DRM protection for its own sake needs to get tossed. It's a massive overreach.

Would it still be considered bypassing DRM if you just record the screen? All the layers of DRM are active in that case.

It's not, you are allowed to make personal backups. Depending on the jurisdiction you are even specifically allowed to break DRM to do that !

I wouldn't say copying streams is trivially easy

The tools to do so would probably be easily available if it weren't illegal

Yes - it's non-trivial to figure out for the first time, but if we're allowed to share such information, it only needs to be figured out once. Each subsequent copy after the first is trivial.

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