Of course getting real data here is very difficult but I really do feel its becoming very easy to be a pirate.

I can only share my anecdotes that I see right now - if I type in “iptv” to the main e-commerce websites here in Thailand (Lazada, Shopee, tiktok) all have hundreds of listings and thousands of monthly sales. Iptv piracy tech UX is very similar to Plex or Jellyfin tho the latter is more expensive to run and more legally challenging but the UX from the customers pov is identical. Buy a subscription, get account details and app install instructions, connect and watch. So UX is not the barrier here imo.

As a ancient pirate this does worry me a bit as it’s becoming too easy and corporate services are really pushing the consumers which brings way too much attention to this.