I'm from the region and every regular person pays for streaming these days, especially youngsters.

I've searched for content on danish trackers once, for content that wasn't on any services, and i think a few people use it for that, ie. fans or film buffs.

Often whole seasons are removed, content jumps around, or stuff just disappears forever even if you've paid for it.

So this operation seems very excessive.

Maybe there's an active strategy to remove old stuff to keep people interested in the newer?

Either way this weird cultural goldfish-memory is tragic. There's so much out there not on streaming these days.