That's not entirely true. In some countries, adding the User-Agent, Referer, and Origin is enough to get it playing; in others, it's geo-blocked and requires a VPN or proxy; and in others, like in my case, it doesn't require any of that at all.
Endpoint server is up!
Fixed media stream on Astro that caused error 403
Q: Some Astro/Starhub channels are not working
A: That channel might be dead / got tokenized
Manifesting..... 😂