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Only use torrents if you know what you're doing. In the developed world, this usually ends with a very expensive letter in your mailbox.
You can get a VPN or seedbox to avoid those letters. They are a lot cheaper than a single streaming service.
I guess Canada must be undeveloped, cause I've never seen one of those "expensive letters" in my mailbox
Using a VPN solved this problem for me. If you don't want to pay for a VPN, then use OpenVPN Connect.
How does that get around paying? You don't pay for the clients but their servers.
Whoops! I forgot to mention that I have a tech friend that gave me a free profile/account that I use with the OpenVPN client.
So, if you don't want to pay for a VPN get someone to give you access to theirs for free?
I had, simply, forgotten that my friend had given me a free account.