No, but it acts like one in all the ways that matter. If a couple of large studios got it into their mind to make this happen, the others would quickly fall in line.<p>And what&#x27;s more, &quot;pirates&quot; don&#x27;t like paying any amount of money for DRM-encumbered crap. Streaming is a different beast, but even then it&#x27;s a bad situation what with the time limits and such.