TL;DW - he needs reference screen grabs to make his screen accurate props, but lately in browser DRM has been making it harder and harder to take screenshots (specifically using a Mac on Amazon streaming service). So if he gets frustrated enough, he'll just torrent a HQ copy and use that instead.
DRM is making it annoying for everyone, and you never own anything if you don't have an unrestricted local copy.
I absolutely hate this trend. If my eyeballs can see it, the camera on my phone can. Or a cheap HDMI capture card with a leaked HDCP key. They just want to screw over non-techie people who don't know about these workarounds.
That was a big complaint when hdmi and hd TVs just came out - people bought hdmi to rca converter boxes and found they still couldn’t use them for their movies because PS3 (the most common Blu-ray player at the time) refused to play a movie on a non-hdcp compliant device