Literally found myself saying that 2 hours later.
This is the absolute truth. I've even come to realize that there are certain "issues" or "bugs" I completely disregard on some of my Linux systems because there's either another way around or it's not that much of an issue for me.
Man, I loved Dune so much. I haven't picked up the sequels yet because I still have so much in my backlog, lol.
This really grinds my gears. Every company is always complaining about piracy, just to add invasive DRM and/or crappy measures that only ever hurt the consumer.
Some might not act like this is a big deal because those codes typically come with a physical disc, but when you bought the disc you actually bought TWO copies, the physical disc AND the digital code.
What if you sold your code to someone else? GONE. What if you sold your disc? GONE.
This should be illegal but unfortunately they can update their crappy EULA's that say something along the lines of "By using our service you agree to--", and there goes your media that you "own forever".
What a joke.
#1. (RTFM) Read the Megathread, it has all the trusted sites you'll likely need unless you're getting into to very niche things.
#2. Use a VPN. Mullvad is great but they recently removed port-forwarding so if you care about port-forwarding I recommend going with something like ProtonVPN (paid).
#3. Bind your VPN to your torrent client. (I recommend using QBittorrent)
#4. Also, for music, I recommend you look into soulseek.
Edit: Read @GrievingWidow420@feddit.it's reply to this comment. They give helpful information that I completely spaced to add into my original comment.