No, they were just re-encodes to my knowledge. I have a Netflix account and I checked out one of the pirated ones just to compare. I couldn't tell a difference

No, they were just re-encodes to my knowledge. I have a Netflix account and I checked out one of the pirated ones just to compare. I couldn't tell a difference so they did a good job, but I'm sure the difference was there. I'd imagine the Netflix DRM will get broken sooner or later, especially as they continue to release Netflix-only content, but the screen caps have been so good that the pressure to do so hasn't been very high I don't think.