My favorite people discussing a seriously difficult topic. Love it.
My 2c: Piracy is not a money issue, it's a service issue.
If youtube's paid service would be good, I would not have a problem paying. (but you can't for domain accounts)
Same for streaming services: I will not grab a subscription from all of them: too much hassle.
And netflix (for instance) limits amount of downloaded content for viewing offline, and for how long.
Plex has no such limitations...