Anyone's service drop out in the last few days?
These scenes are like the old warez scene, with music, films, etc. Getting big pressure for results seems the cable operators business is not suitable for demand and they will at some point need to change, hopefully, IPTV delivery and operators can get better at staying anonymous, whilst remaining hugely profitable causing more and more operators to come onto the black market until the white market is forced to make that change.
As before, people are happy to pay for TV content, but when they are paying $100 to watch basically 4 main channels often 2 being kids. You can't blame them for thinking it's expensive and hence pirating.
As with other media, they still think it's the 1980-90s, and need to realise people have a lot more choice these days, and repeats of the Simpsons every day isn't worth the price they charge.
Not service but streams have shut down most significant is Scandinavian streams in recent days.