Exactly, and they still have it from day one every time. It's not an effective method against piracy, it's just an annoyance to paying users.

They just never learn this lesson. Remember the meme joking about all the unskippable bullshit people had to watch on a DVD, when they could just download a pirated copy and press play :)

Scene pirates complain quite a lot that they frequently do not have access to day one Netflix UHD releases and they have to burn hardware keys to do it every few months.

It's about control