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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This is mainly due to 2 reasons:
* When people are physically present in your home and watching alongside you, they are typically covered by the same license or agreement that you have with the streaming service. This is similar to watching a DVD or Blu-ray with your buddies in your living room.
* Streaming services differentiate between personal viewing and public sharing. While watching with friends in your home is considered personal viewing, screen sharing over the internet can be seen as a form of public sharing, especially if the audience includes individuals who don’t have their own licenses or subscriptions.
Netflix’s reasoning behind enabling this rule was – streaming/sharing your screen includes showing the content that is owned/distributed by netflix at a cost. They don’t want people to be able to watch/stream this content for free, So when Netflix banned streaming their website, they had done this more for people to not be able to stream in huge, public servers/voice channels or on websites like youtube. And this is why, even if you’re in a small vc of say, 5 people, you still can’t stream netflix via discord legally.
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