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What's the state of pirating livestreams? (futurology.today)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by CanadaPlus@futurology.today to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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So, there's an upcoming event I enjoy, but also don't want to watch directly this time for political reasons.

I've never been in this spot before. Do I have any options, or do I just wait for it to be over, avoid any spoilers and look for a recording?

Edit: Thank you all! Ironically, I ended up super busy and missed it anyway. Good to know for next year, if geopolitics is still weird, though.

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[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 weeks ago

It really depends on the event and how much the organizers want to play whack-a-mole with illegal broadcasts. The only knowledge I have with pirating a live broadcast would be something like a big UFC fight. If you get really thick in the weeds where you are finding Twitch streamers that have 5 viewers and claim to be playing a UFC video game, some of them are broadcasting a real fight and are pretending to play with a controller

[–] appearexpressspot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

https://fmhy.net/video#live-tv-sports

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To download or just to watch?

Search engines won't give you the links anymore, you've to find them on communities, reddit is one such place I hate to say. But I stream tv all the time it just takes more work to find the links.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yandex works fine, avoid Google and Bing.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

There's usually some way to watch livestreams.

For sports, there's apps like Sopcast, Acestream, Kodi, Veetle, also any number of dodgy streaming websites that change all the time.

[–] Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn't new... Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I'm sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you've got a gathering is the way to do it.

[–] imdoneinteracting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder what kind of sweet prison tattoo you get for illegally streaming eurovision

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know, but somebody is going to have to keister some glitter for it.