As far as an affiliate telling you that you could access from a banned jurisdiction I would be interested if you would PM me the chat logs you had with them. That is not something that we allow our affiliates to do.
I don't mean to hold you responsible but here you are wrong, I have myself visited numerous streams of Edward, the supposed owner of stake and he clearly said, you may use a VPN to access stake and if anything that is an invitation and suggesting others how to access from banned countries.
He has also said many many times he is from australia which is another country stake is not supposed to operate in.
While i understand technically he is not a 'player' on stake, he always says he uses vpn.