Though often they get it wrong, like when I bought a movie off Apple and it errored when I screen mirrored to my dumb TV and it’s back to piracy first for me.

Your dumb TV doesn't have the appropriate HDCP chips, which is why it errored. Your computer didn't know whether it was a dumb TV or if it was an HDMI capture card ready to rip the movie...

Not that I agree with the practice.

And see how well it works. 2 hours after airing everything is online. The only ones they're giving any hassle are legitimate consumers.

This is a similar charade to airport security: It doesn't actually do anything but satisfy a bunch of suits and create some pointless jobs around it.

These things are designed to hassle legitimate customers only. Pirates are never going to pay anyway. DRM is so they can squeeze more out of paying customers.