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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A lot of people missed an important detail.
Once upon a time, many commercials would show a dozen people watching TV (such as a TV ad, obviously). That no longer happens because legally the distribution rights for a DVD are limited to a certain single-digit viewing audience size… so the ads portrayed and encouraged breaking the law which got them in trouble.
Same as if you own said DVD and decide to put it on a projector in the park. It’s not really that it’s public vs private, moreso the quantity of viewers. Although I’ve never heard of someone buying 20 discs for one viewing with 100 people… that would be a weird court case lol
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.
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