Well yeah, something someone else made, but for free, instead of $4.99, that's a 'better product' for consumers ... until there exists non such products to buy.
It's an enduring bit of weird logic at HN, that somehow IP should not exist, 'because mega corps!'
If anti-piracy did not exist within regular countries, then literally zero content that required investment would get made, it's that simple.
If people can trivially access content 'for free' they generally will do that.
For music, it's not so bad, it just so happens most of the best music is cheap to make and niche artists couldn't command a high price anyhow, ergo the long-tail slot on Spotify has some efficiency to it.
But there are innumerable productions which we all enjoy which require investment and without some kind of rights management, those literally disappear.
It's all theoretical until you make something that is 'stolen' and it hits home pretty fast.
Some arguments could definitely be made that the long-tail of piracy is actually beneficial, even to content producers, as it leaks content to areas wherein individuals couldn't afford to buy it, but that's a specific argument.
It's a bit ominous for countries to be blocking other countries etc. but this issue likely has to be looked at somehow. If 'piracy' is below certain thresholds they should just not worry about it, but that may not be the case.