If you want to get the most out of your television and enjoy watching football, you must have heard of Acestream. There is no surprise in this: on the one hand, it constitutes a way to watch football without paying money due to its usefulness and the way it works, which has made it one of the most persecuted tools of LaLiga, and in fact they have already blocked it. Website in Spain. If you’re not very clear What is AceStream, how does it work and its legalityKeep reading because we will tell you in this article.

What is AceStream and how does it work?

AceStream is a free app available on Google Play for Android TV/Google TV, which is also available for Android phones, tablets and computers (but we’ll see later that there are certain restrictions on accessing it, something you can see at a glance by trying it out). enter via their website). This app is just an open source player It is based on VLC Media Player, which is quite reminiscent of Kodi.

Someone AceStream’s biggest strength is its ease of use and in fact, if any of the players mentioned above sound familiar to you, it won’t cost you much to learn how they work.

One of the keys to its success and controversy is in its operation, because it allows. share streams in a decentralized way via a P2P network (peer to peer) by others. The result is a wide range of publications of very good quality. Thus, it is possible to reach more than acceptable Full HD resolution and up to 4K losslessly from the application.

To use AceStream Simply download the app on a compatible device, install it by following the steps, and then open the app to add the playlist that interests you. We were talking about VLC before because the way to do this is the same: Go to ‘Media’ > ‘Turn on network dump’ and paste the URL there. Then all you have to do is tap ‘Play’.

Uses and legality

AceStream generally allows you to run IPTV listings, play any kind of content, or send content to other devices. It’s one of the simplest ways to do this, as detailed on its page on the Google app store. Stream video/audio content from public online sources or play from a local storage device.

However AceStream does not store any content or links in this wayBut let’s not forget that managing this will be in our hands. So it will depend on what users want to use it for; This actually happens in P2P applications, torrent clients, etc. It is something that already exists.

This point is very important, because on the Internet it is possible to find URLs at: movies, TV series, music, football, basketball etc. Special channels for national and international You can play with Ace Stream. What’s the problem? Some of these channels contain unlicensed (paid) content, meaning the content can be watched for free, which is not supported by AceStream’s terms of use.

In summary, AceStream is another content player whose operation and functions are completely legal, but due to its features such as ease of use, quality and mainly the way content is shared in a decentralized way, it makes it a Ideal app for unauthorized dissemination of content (e.g. LaLiga matches or Netflix series).

This is why various sports operators or organizations have reported that their websites are blocked in the Spanish state. If we want to access acestream.org from SpainThis is not possible unless we use a proxy or VPN.

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