And as I have tried to explain repeatedly: THe making of that magic "virtual copy" that is not affected by DRM is bypassing DRM in and of itself.

There's no viable way to do this without bypassing or tricking the DRM at some point.
Modern DRM systems use complicated tricks which make it very difficult or even impossible to rip a perfect copy with even the best tools. Even if you manage to get a perfect copy made the DRM will likely see the virtual drive and fail you on that basis (some will even refuse to run from the real disc if such software is present on your system).
The only way to prevent the DRM seeing that the virtual drive isn't the real thing is to use cloaking or emulation functions, at which point you're descending into questionably-legal territory anyway.

You are trying to make a copy , legal or not, it will require you to bypass the copy protection. This is the point you seem to have completely missed.