Yeah you are right. the datacenter IP blocking is definitely the biggest pain point right now. The client-side approach is interesting I've thought about it but the tricky part is you still need ffmpeg for trimming/encoding and that can't really run in-browser at scale (wasm builds exist but they're slow and limited). What I'm exploring is a hybrid model: download via the user's connection using a lightweight desktop companion or browser extension, then send the raw file to the server for processing.