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It isn’t like your ‘platform’ is a part of who you are. You could buy a device that they support.

Content creators/providers are legally allowed to restrict the platforms they support. For example, you have to watch some live sports through a cable tv subscription. There is no way to pay for it separately.

Does this suck? Sure, but cable companies pay enough money to make it worth all the lost customers (or at least that is what they are betting on)

You have no legal right to access content under your terms. Content creators have (nearly) complete control (there are some laws around what they can do, but requiring Linux support is not one of them)

So what? The law is easy to bypass and a very separate thing from morality.

You're not paying for the right to use something. That is theft of goods and services.

"Theft" implies that the victim loses something valuable to them. The more close analogy would be 'picking up someone decided to throw away'.

I wonder if you would feel the same way if someone violated an open source license....