There is still a difference between downloading the content and getting a refund AND downloading the content from torrent websites. The content on those websites are usually many months old but the MP version is constantly updated.
Them having no license doesn’t make ANY difference in the end because you’d never know who has bought the package, who has got a refund, who has acquired it illegally. As far as it goes on the Epic’s side, everything is secret, and as far as it goes for other websites, they have god given rights to the content they steal and you’d still not know who owns it legitimately and who not. So the term “License” just doesn’t make any sense . All this is to prevent abuse, and I don’t see why a legit customer should double think his decision after he finds out he can’t simply fool people to get a refund, if that was his intention then he was never a customer in the first place.
Your statement is like saying no posters and trailers of a movie really show it all (obviously) So you should go to a movie theater and watch the movie completely, then decide to pay for it or not. Seriously?
Now this argument isn’t about whether a refund should happen or not. Refunds were issued since day 1 and they will be in the future. But the reasons one points out to the MP team for getting a refund are usually confusing or technical and the MP aren’t a group of artists that have experience producing the kind of content they publish on the MP so they simply proceed with the refund believing it’s legit. There is nothing below the landscape, refund accepted.