Why Would iTunes turn me off and not allow me to Purchase Content while outside the United States?

I have been living outside of the USA for 7-months. I have been purchasing and viewing content that is stored in my iCloud again without any issues. Today, while attempting to purchase a movie I received an error message saying that I need to contact Support. I chatted with a rather robotic Support Representative and after a 10 minute review of my account he stated 'all looks good on my end' then, he asked me to hold on for an additional few minutes and said that he could not tell me the reason why my account was 'frozen' but referred me to the iTunes terms and conditions. I repeatidly asked what was wrong and he refused to answer me. After a heated back and forth he referred me to Paragraph B in the terms and conditions and it states that content can only be used while in the USA or its possessions or territories. I told the chat rep that I live in two countries and was curious how I would fix this situation. The rep was mum and would not reply to me.
Does anyone have any feedback? I am unsure what the big deal is. I am paying for content and simply viewing it while traveling. Why would Apple insist on such a requirement in this very global world we live in.

They are part of the US store's terms (terms that you have agreed to) :
The iTunes Service is available to you only in the United States, its territories, and possessions. You agree not to use or attempt to use the iTunes Service from outside these locations. Apple may use technologies to verify your compliance.
(Other countries terms will be similar)
It's like that at the requirement of the content providers, they want control over where their content is available - each country therefore has to have its own store and you have to be in a country (and have a billing address in that country on your account) to use its store. That applies to both buying new content and redownloading past purchases.
Have you not got a copy of all of your downloads on a backup ? There is no guarantee that any item will remain in the store for redownloading (you are only guaranteed one download of any item), a rights-holder could remove an item from the store at any time.

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