Copyright is not really criminal law, so companies have to sue people and it's relatively easy to be anonymous enough on the internet for that threat model, and you can't successfully sue someone if you don't know who they are.

Yeah, piracy is doing better than ever. FMHY shows the entire ecosystem—it's huge: https://fmhy.net/

This will be taken down though if Rockstar tries to because dot coms are not DMCA resistant.

At the end of the day, copyright is trying to constrain information which is not easy on the internet.

ps: For the creator, add your website to https://donatemonero.org