An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
Create more value than you capture.
Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.