Remember your wallet is your vote in all of this, no matter the size of it!

I think I'll vote with my VPN protected piracy.

If I'm not buying a thing, but instead a limited license to a thing, then I don't care about buying that thing anymore and I'll just take it.

I doubt I'll be alone and with Denuvo being regularly defeated on release day, I'm not too worried about availability.

The whales have votes orders of magnitude larger than mine.

It's nothing like democracy though, and the concept of paying (or not paying) to vote is antithetical to a democratic process. We should not confuse the two.