I've usually found the opposite (people want to pay for things, but if unnecessary stupidity like region locking keeps getting in the way then they're going to pirate). Otherwise well there's always going to be freeloaders.

One thing I seem to keep missing or misunderstanding if it's already been explained countless times in all your docs, would any given torrenter be able to just start seeding something to be able to earn the tokens to then start watching stuff or is a buy in required?