Piracy

And this comes at a time when it's easier than ever to pirate. It's like they're actively trying to shoot themselves in the foot.

Small dedicated pc with no gpu, headless linux variant, whatever torrent client, Sonarr linked to Jackett pulling in shows from whatever private tracker you can get on, Unpackerr to automatically unpack rar's and the like, all sent to Plex and you effectively have an automated system to replace every single streaming service... Sure, the initial setup is beyond most people, but it's only a matter of time before we start seeing people sell preconfigured systems or images.