Canada

The problem is that kids are too lazy to torrent and have accepted the overly corporatized internet. They grew up on phones, with loud, annoying, unblocked ads. If it works they'll just continue to throw money at it, even if the service is garbage. They literally just don't know better. Most of them just watch 480p streams if they do pirate at all, but otherwise are just accepting of how shitty everything is because they never experienced anything better.

Yeah, I effectively have a private Netflix library of whatever content I want, ranging from anime to stuff that doesn't get released officially, fan projects like AI upscales for Star Trek series that were deemed not worthy of getting proper remasters, or audio restorations like Daria which had a lot of great Seattle grunge they didn't re-license for the DVD release, the despecialized Star Wars trilogy which is the closest to the theatrical cut as can be, axing all the special effects and CG additions from the 90s and onward.

The way to get started is basically to get a VPN and do some research into torrent sites. Torrenting is pretty basic - you can eventually start complicating yourself with automated torrenting with Sonarr and Radarr, but that's when you have a dedicated setup with a decent amount of space. I personally am part of a forum that shares direct download links to content but that is also something more advanced like the equivalent of getting into a private tracker for torrents.