I hope fdroid gets registered

They were villains in their piracy era as well. They used to charge for stolen fansubs

How about let me know if the apk is from a verified publisher or show me “unknown publisher” and let me decide do i put it into my device.

Desktop operating systems provide root access without forcing you to bypass manufacturer restrictions. Why should phones be any different?

+1 for antennapod

Making any content takes time, money, and labor. Nobody can keep making content, especially high-value content, with just “passion.” That’s why all those peertube videos (that are solely based on peertube and not other platforms) are always low quality low effort videos which provides no value to most people

It is. And they are blocking AI crawler for a while now. https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-tools-detect-block-ai-bots/

I am not aware of any reputated place where drm-free raw file downloading of the movies/shows you bought is possible. The best and easy way is ripping your dvds and blurays