frequency of 'spam' calls should have significant gone down with the implementation of cid verification (stir/shaken). it has on all our lines; home and office--cellular and pots.
there's enough ways around charges of 'discriminating' based on the disallowed criteria of household income or race, that it will still be 'business as usual' for providers. they'll use other excuses, such as differences in local market (competition) and population/customer density, or the 'extreme' costs of upgrading aging infrastructure in previously-"avoided" areas, which would be 'allowed'.
there's nothing stopping the company from discontinuing the sale of new 'lifetime' plans should there ever be a concern about the 'costs' to serve those who already have it. as it is now, they have a fairly high price on a very modest amount of space, and it appears to me that they're covering their ass here wrt future servicing costs.
at €300 per 2tb? that's like 10x the current cost of storage. sounds like a reasonable price to provide what is really just a modest quota, indefinitely, so long as there isn't a wave of 'fires' across southeast asia that puts every hdd and most nand facilities out of commission and storage costs skyrocket to prices never before seen.
better to support via votes, funding, spreading-the-word, and volunteer efforts, than to label oneself a 'pirate' (or anything, really) on voter registrations, which are public data here. i'll stick with "independent" on that form, tyvm.