It is a growing user base. Streaming services were convenient, now they are not (ads, increased cost, reduced content availability, fragmentation). > It just s

It is a growing user base. Streaming services were convenient, now they are not (ads, increased cost, reduced content availability, fragmentation). > It just seems highly unlikely this is driven by a growing user base; If you are old enough, there was a time when everyone pirated stuff due to the alternative being rather expensive or unavailable (physical media). Then a golden age of streaming services that were cheap and had high availability basically killed torrenting for the general public. Now people are returning to piracy as the streaming services got worse for reasons I stated above.