For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.
With what? Most torrent I've seen sites have ratios. You can use a VPN to hide your origin but even Mullvad has dropped the ability to set incoming ports to seed so....