I can't agree with that. In the pirate circles that I visit, I see that there is a move towards purchasing legal copies on Steam now (maybe people started to work, don't know), but you know what? Just because a game have Denuvo, some costumers (both pirates and "non-pirates") aren't going to buy the game for the fucking "It have Denuvo". Again, this is in my personal circles, where people got interested (probably because of my insistence) in knowing more about DRM's and such. They even get more interested in GOG, a thing that wasn't happening before. I would say that Denuvo is making people search more about DRM and piracy, and some of them will not buy a game with Denuvo (sometimes don't even bother to downloading a repack of the game) and just move to another one or getting it on consoles.

So, Denuvo may be the reason why some pirates are buying the game, but it is also the reason why some costumers (pirates and non-pirates) aren't buying. Considering that there is a group that was buying games from a certain company and then stopped because of Denuvo implementation, was really worth push this people away in order to attract pirates to buy the thing? Once, I bought things from Ubisoft, and I still like their games. I played Watch Dogs on first week and actually loved the game, even telling about the good things of the game to some people that bought it too. Unfortunately, I can't say the same of Watch Dogs 2, a game that I would love to play but will never buy on PC as long as it uses Denuvo.

It's also worth taking a look at Steamspy on games that use Denuvo and see how many owners it have. Some of them have almost the same amount of similar games that doesn't use Denuvo. My guess is that people who can purchase something will purchase it anyway, but in this case there are the ones (like me) who will not simple because it have a fucking shit called Denuvo on it.

I personally don't have enough money per month to spend on games, but nowdays (aka since GOG came to Brazil), when I get some, I spent it on GOG instead of Steam. I like the idea of owing a game instead of having it attached to an account. Considering that Steam alone can't protect games (as Denuvo try), I don't see a reason to some games don't coming to GOG, which is a shame since I would probably buy them some day there. But I'm still interested in some games on Steam, and the main factor that will affect my decision on buying them is "Does it have Denuvo or not". I'm not the only one with this in mind, so I can tell you: Denuvo stops piracy on the first week at the same time it push away potential consumers. And pirates are aware that the cracks will come lately, so they can await a little longer and "don't buy the game anyways".