Why is it illegal to share your screen via Discord, etc. when watching Netflix – and how is it differentiated from people sitting on your couch next to you to watch alongside you?

Question

To further explain, the concept is the same, isn’t it? Watching IRL you can have 2, 3, 10 people around one screen. Online, you can do the same thing by sharing your screen through Discord and similar apps, but in that case it is illegal, you can get accounts banned, warned, etc. and is seemingly considered to be piracy. What is the actual difference between the two?

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Answer 1

If they could charge you more for sitting on the couch together to watch it, they absolutely would do that. There is just no real practical way for them to do that, so they can’t.