It's mainly people who want live sports which have to be live so they can talk to their friends about it.

And/or people who want cable TV but don't want to pay $100/month (pretty hard to get usenet/torrents of most stuff that isn't available on streaming, good luck getting Lifetime, Hallmark, and Bravo content for example through your sources in a timely manner if at all and some people strange as it is enjoy the experience of flipping on a channel and just watching whatever). These services typically include all the premium channels as well so it's equivalent to pirating several streaming services and very convenient for non-tech-savy types who can just buy a "dodgy stick" for $500 and enjoy unlimited stuff.

People are dropping the paid services so their choices are lower prices, accept lower profits, or get out the hammer and start suing the proles to scare them into paying again. And we all know which of those is most appealing.

Piracy has been ailing for a while. Cope types talk about the piracy hydra but that's fake. Stuff is more expensive than ever with less incentive. For example rarbg shut down years ago and nothing replaced it. One little site did but it shut is doors permanently after tons of problems late last year. Since then? Nothing. So one head died, one head appeared and then also died. PT's occasionally implode due to greed, drama, admins getting tired, and yes rarely busts. The danger to the deeper ecosystem is the higher ecosystem and lower hanging fruit being entirely shut down leaving anti-piracy types who have to justify their paychecks looking hungrily under every rock.

They're already trying to ban VPNs under protect the children.