The way I see it, you can get a top tier VPN (mullvad) and a seedbox for the cost of one streaming service per month.

This is a good question. If it is so cheap and easy then why not? I think it is a matter of american government and corporate terror tactic.

They make these few rare cases when they catch somebody so loud and showy that the rest of the flock prefers to sign all the TOS and don’t have this additional worry. It is a success story of manipulative scare techniques that copyright corpos mastered.

Most people prefer to be civilians than to be anti corporate combatants, even if it is perfectly safe in practice. This is normal.

Surely these tent dwellers have a few dollars a month for streaming content