There's pretty good consumer protection in the EU. I imagine consumer protection routes probably would apply here.

Definitely not really acceptable though nonetheless; you're a paying customer / subscriber that got 'scammed'...

From the perspective of the company he was scamming them by not paying for a previously agreed service.

> Stripe allows subscriptions to be fixed in the background

Sounds like this is a scheme against customers that GP fell for.

Are you claiming for the following months that you paid they denied access? That would be against laws afaik