OK, so I managed to get it to work with a free VPN service and the help of this video. I'm in New Zealand and currently earning points (albeit at a slower rate). You can edit your account and see which servers you can connect to here
Install a VPN. You can pick whatever country you want to appear to be in. Then you can use whatever grabber/downloader you want. I recommend YouTube Video Downloader.
http://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/files/youtube_downloader_hd.zip
No doubt, PPTP definitely broken years ago. On the other hand the rest of the Spiegel article sounds like fear mongering. Debunking pieces:
http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/12/that-spiegel-nsa-story-is-nonsense.html
My personal favorite is Security Kiss. It let's you use 300mb per day, which is more than enough for browsing or watching the occasional video. Also, it's totally free and easy to use. Check it out!