you can mitigate a whole lot with

WINEPREFIX=~/Games/TheGame winetricks sandbox

eliminates links to home et al and houses all files in the prefix. also in the dosdevices folder there are links to root, home, etc. mapped to windows drive letters which (with the exception of c:) you can safely delete; this can also be accomplished with winecfg GUI.

if you ain’t got opensnitch or an alternative running, you can prevent network access with firejailas a command prefix (the one where you put mangohud and gamemode etc in).

radarr/prowlarr handle this plenty fine, no idea how they do it under the hood

there’s this community !mediatheque@feddit.org where movies and shows get posted, on arte, zdf, etc. the urls are usually geoblocked, but yt-dlp works without issues for the majority of them,

ITT buncha folks with no reading comprehension, free != pay little.

if ISP/government are looking for folks doing the thing, get a torrent client for your laptop/phone, send links to it, and then seek out some free wifi, like a coffee shop or sumsuch. loiter about, limit download speeds so they don’t ban your freeloading ass and there you go - adventure, fresh air, you don’t gotta download “watch dogs”, you’re living the game!