Its more like the store being a literal hedge maze, with an entrance fee, and once you get to the actual products, they are outrageously priced junk.

And the store is price fixing with nearby stores.

I think theres a difference between opportunistic crime, and reasonably upstanding people being utterly frustrated with a market status quo.

If course there is a ton of piracy that is just straight up theft from perfectly convenient platforms, but the unacceptable, anticompetitive commercial platforms are the core that keeps the community going, I think.