This seems to have rattled a few cages. r/Science the latest to effectively back down and unfortunately I think there will be more following suit.

I use real-debrid these days (cached torrents on their server from what I understand). Few bucks a month but maxes out a Gigabit line and no need to pay for a VPN. Can set it up with Kodi/Stremio to have instantly streamable media, even on iOS.