I think it could violate the second precept. We have to be careful about this. Even watching Netflix at a friend’s house might be breaking the second precept if you don’t have a Netflix subscription and if you have an intention to watch without paying Netflix. However, if you are just visiting a house and they are watching a Netflix movie on the TV and you don’t know that it’s Netflix, then it might not break the precept especially if you have no intention of stealing. Friends without a subscription are generally not allowed to watch Netflix through another person’s account, as Netflix enforces restrictions on password sharing outside the primary household.
Netflix says this on their website:
You may not share your Netflix account outside of your household. A Netflix Household is a collection of devices connected to the internet at the main place where you watch Netflix.
People who are not in your household will need to create their own account to watch Netflix, or can be added as an extra member.
So if a person watches something illegal, they are not technically taking any physical object, but the person would be “stealing” the money that the companies are supposed to get when the person uses their service. Another way to think of it is if someone uses a service without paying, they would be stealing the service itself and also the money that the service provider are supposed to get when someone uses their service.
So, we should always pay for the services we use or the movies/tv shows we watch. We should do things legally.
I hope everyone can observe the five precepts well.