[toast0]

Netflix has a right to rent physical discs, but streaming is different than lending. I would love for movies to have compulsory licensing like music does though.

[Gaelan]

> Netflix has a right to rent physical discs, but streaming is different than lending.

I’m curious about this. I mean it’s different in terms of implementation and law, but conceptually it’s pretty similar.

Side-note-thought-experiment: in places where it is legal to “pirate” content you own, could Netflix get around this by renting a DVD to you (but holding in in escrow for you at their location) then providing you streaming access to that DVD?

[toast0]

Streaming in my mind is more like asking your friend to come over to watch a movie, than lending them the movie to watch themselves.

Exhibition rights are significantly different than private viewing rights.

At the end of the day, the results are roughly the same, one more person has seen the film. But there's a lot of subtlety in how that happens.

[homero]

No they got shutdown https://www.wired.com/2011/08/zediva-preliminary-injunction/