Those limitations were a hard cap years ago. Now they aren’t: if you put them on somebody, they are arbitrary.
And you’re going on a weird-ass rant about capitalism yet you’re not seeing that this is a classic capitalistic problem? You’re expecting people to go a route that is more difficult, more expensive, more time consuming and has less choice, because a fraction of a percent of their effort and money will then maybe go to the original producer of the music?
Let people pirate if it’s the easy route for them FFS. Blame the record labels and distributors, they’re the ones at fault here.