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is there a way to watch pirated shows/movies together? (feddit.nl)

submitted 10 months ago by Getallen@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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so is it possible to watch pirated shows and movies together over the internet? me and my friends cant meet up because we're hours away from eachother.

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What about you all torrent the same file, hit play at the same time and use some audio / video chat for the rest? Discord, MS Teams (lol), Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, whatever is available...

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I mean if you use that software, you can just share your screen.

Notably, the free versions of Zoom and Teams only allow 40 minutes if you have more than 2 people in the call.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are opensource chat options with no limits. Notably, Jitsi. No need to go proprietary.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

+1 for Jitsi. Great suggestion.

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Neat! I've never actually had to look for others, I just know Zoom and Teams because of work lol

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

We have tried this before and usually the video and audio quality go to shit. Source is 1080p streamed video looks like 144p. Tried Zoom, Jitsi, Teams, Telegram, FaceTime. All with very similar results. So far the best solution has been sharing a copy of the file and playing on the count of three.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

This is what we do. We have tried using a shared player with limited success because we all have different setups (PC connected to TV, Plex Streaming, Apple TV Stream, etc). But I am always looking for a more elegant answer. Hopefully someone here might have some new tech.