The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity.
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Life is not a tour of gas stations.
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.