It's easier to pay $15 to buy the show on Amazon.
Anyone who disagrees hasn't tried to help their friends pirate things, or shut their eyes to the reality.
I wonder what kind of hoops you have gone through in helping your friends with something as simple as this to have such an opinion.
That said, downloading Bittorrent + a VPN, browsing the Pirate Bay, and clicking a magnet link isn't some Herculean effort, either. If you can figure out how to download software on a computer, it's not hard to figure out how to pirate it, too.
Depends on the value of your time. If you get paid less in the amount it takes you to learn all that (like living in a 3rd world country), then it's not worth the $15.
My local currency is currently exchanged for USD at a factor of nearly 6 to 1, making that $15 nearly 10% of minimum wage where I live. And that's before taxes.
DRM raises the bar to casual copying from "copy a file to a USB stick" to "figure out how to run bittorrent, and find a reputable pirate site that doesn't have viruses". In order to receive pirated content, you will have to pass that hurdle, or have someone in your friend network who can pass that hurdle. If none of them can, then you're blocked from pirating.
If people think that isn't a hard hurdle to pass, then they just need to step outside the silicon valley echochamber, and spend more time around normal computer users.
What prevents distribution is taking down the sites that host content, leaving old-school torrenting as the most viable option, which is a hassle to most people.