AceStream VS Peerflix

The pirate scene for sport event streaming is accessible through: * Ad-ridden, dubious websites with a streaming widget, which have a terrible user experience and are a single point-of-failure (servers get taken down routinely) * Acestream (https://acestream.org/), which is a proprietary streaming protocol on top of BitTorrent, available only via a closed-source, unaudited server. Very shady, but works somewhat... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Go to https://acestream.org/. If doesn't load, most probably your ISP is blocking it, then use Tor browser. Source: about 1 year ago

Acestream Uses the BitTorrent protocol to stream video, which is pretty neat. Not sure how effective that can be wholesale, as it’s speed and therefore quality would depend on having a big enough concurrent network. It’s been around a while though. Source: over 2 years ago

When I used a Chromecast, I was fond of an even more direct method. I used a Node CLI called "peerflix" [0] to stream a video file while downloading its torrent (so there wasn't even a need to wait). Then I just opened my browser to the local network address where peerflix was hosting the h264 playlist, and used the Cast button to stream it to my device (which I believe technically means Chromecast "takes over"... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

This is something I've repeated like 10 times on this subreddit, but you don't need to wait for a torrent to finish to start watching it. Literally every torrent client in the past decade supports downloading first piece files first, so you don't have to wait for the download to finish and can start watching it immediately. There's even stuff like peerflix which makes it easier. Source: about 3 years ago