Interesting.. Maybe server storage is still the way to go

I suppose it depends on your jurisdiction. Uploading is what's (potentially) illegal in Canada. Downloading is (probably) legal.

And neither have been tried by courts because mass John Doe suits have been shut down by our courts.

Regardless, the legal risk of downloading here is basically zero, so there's effectively no risk to using a debrid service.

They know their whole business model is piracy. They pretend not to know, for legal reasons.

You could do the free wifi defense and set a super poor password and spend a month or so downloading legal stuff without a VPN before going arr using a VPN. And if someone comes knocking just say you don't recall having a debrid account and claim you must've been hacked.

Doesn't look like you can sign up anonymously (unless you consider bitcoin and email anonymous, which they're generally not).

You can. Paysafecard bought with cash. Only issue is you have to use your normal IP to sign up with (not behind a VPN), though you could use a mobile one or a public one somewhere probably.