Today, there are ways to get around this. You can kickstart a project - decide on how much money you want, ask for it, and if you don't get it, go do something

Today, there are ways to get around this. You can kickstart a project - decide on how much money you want, ask for it, and if you don't get it, go do something else that people will pay you for. Not that piracy is OK in my eyes, but failing to protect oneself from it is outright ridiculous.