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Here's my mildly diplomatic answer that'd probably get tossed:
It's not only price. I don't agree that spotify has the right to a monopoly in music sales. Neither shall youtube have it for videos or adobe for image editing.
There is a market imbalance and the only protest that's left for me is to pirate content.
I would ask how it is theft when I’m prevented from buying media from other countries. I can’t buy Romanian movies or Swedish books. It’s illegal for me to give them money. Where is the theft here?
Why?
Why what? They don’t want my money, and I can clone it without harming anyone. Is it theft?
Why can’t you give them money legally?
I just can’t. They are European countries and when I try to create an account to buy something, I am informed that I can’t create an account from another country (which should be illegal nowadays but they don’t seem to care).
There are laws to allow someone buying Romanian stuff from France, but they don’t care. I know it’s a niche thing, but if they refuse customers, they can’t complain about piracy.
Weird, but I agree, if they won’t take your money fuck em