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Sounds like your friend was VPNing to the wrong jurisdiction.

PulsedMedia (Finland), IHostArt (Romania) and many other seedbox server providers exist and will not shut you down.

Highly recommend Whatbox.ca - i run a “pirate netflix” for all my family and friends off one cheap VPS. It also provides me with a more censorship-resistant VPN than most usual VPN providers. Many VPN services were blocked in GCC countries but not my private whatbox server VPN.

iirc ihostart actually host their servers in their basement, which is bad for reliability but perfectly fine for this use case. The operator also claimed to be an 18 years old, not sure if it's true but if it does I applaud their entrepreneurship spirit at such a young age.

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