If you have 2 options, get the product for paying a market price, and get the product for free, I think 90%+ of all humans will get it for free. The only thing stopping them is friction and consequences. I’m not as optimistic as you, that the only reason people pirate is because it’s available in their geography (why not use a VPN and buy it then). Some people will pay for stuff, I never use pirated stuff, but I’m pretty sure that group of humans is a rarity.

This is provably false. I and everyone else here can get almost any book for free on library genesis right now, with less friction than making an account on Amazon and entering their credit card information. Do they? Most people I know don't.

GP isn’t optimistic he literally gave real world concrete example of this working as he described for games.

You are just pessimistic.

Afaik more or less the same thing happened with spotify and music pirating