Frankly, I start to wonder, why the streaming providers bother with the entire "home network IP" thing, given that everyone who knows just a little bit about computers can easily circumvent it.
When HBO Max started in the US, it was not available outside of the US. (It is still not available in Germany.) Still, for the first year I was using it. How? If you guess VPN you are not fully wrong. But not quite. A friend of mine set up one of his old laptops in his home, set up a VPN, and I used it as a Remote Computer to access HBO Max from Germany.
Now Disney did the entire "home network only" for streaming, and I... Well, you guessed it. I set up a computer in my home network for remote access and tada.
Sure, you need somewhat good internet (so if you are in rural America it might not work out) for this to work, but if you have good internet... Eh. It is easy.
Also, if you do not have a collection of backup laptops like you average IT worker (honestly, I need a way to sell my 6 old laptops that are littering my apartment), you might need to get a Raspberri Pi to pull this off. But frankly...
Really, fuck the streamers. Because to me the question is never "Do I share this with friends or do I force everyone to get their own ones?" but "Do I share this with friends, or should I just move to pirating?" Frankly, the only reason that I am not pirating right now is mainly that I respect my palls working in the industry too much. But frankly, with how shitty the streamers are treating them, my patience with the streamers is very, very low. Just saying.
