Theft is theft, don't matter if it's irl or online. As a developer who periodically witnesses users spending hours trying to circumvent 1 dollar payments I think that the time has come for the piracy culture to end. And I used to do piracy too
Copyright infringement is not theft -- false comparison.
Also, have you considered how likely the people who are trying to get around your payment would be to pay up if they didn't find a way? If what you say about how long they try is true, I'd say the chance is extremely close to 0%.
That's the dirty secret of the anti-piracy campaigns of rightsholders. The "lost sales" narrative is a load of made-up horseradish, and they know it.
