... and I'm sure there are no ways around that, right? Wink, wink.

opening a pdf is a difficult task for most people

exaggerating slightly but you know what I mean

All it takes is one of your friends who knows how to. Then they'll share with you. And much like opening PDFs, this isn't rocket science.

The base knowledge here is people who know how to install and play pretty complex games. These people go to impossible lengths to install video drivers and troubleshoot problems with their computers; I'm sure they won't find this particular task very difficult.

All of these blockades are simple ISP-level DNS redirections. Simply changing your DNS to google or cloudflare or similar resolves this quite nicely, no VPN needed.

Just as recent as yesterday I accessed TPB while connected to a VPN server located in Sweden.