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

When you pay for a subscription Netflix grants you a license to the content for yourself and your household. People visiting you and sitting on your couch are included. Those half the world away on YouTube or a Twitch stream are not. So it’s really as simple as “because Netflix said so”.