Handles

They’re like Cylons

THERE ARE MANY COPIES

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN

Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.

I didn’t bother clicking through, so grain of salt — wouldn’t torrent indexers and search sites also be included in this many site blocks? Streaming sites seems to be the lowest hanging fruit.

This. Any open website with the notification service described in OP is a potential anti-piracy honeypot. And if setting up RSS feeds is too complex, how is it any more so to wait for a ping and then manually download the film?

You tried 1234 and password already, right?