Funnily the laws often protect these people. I like comparing the software theft situation to the TV store. What do you do in a TV store? You log the people who steal on camera, shame them in public, claim for damages, worst case they get shot. Obviously this depends on the location and laws. Speaking of law, the thief could be off a lot worse. Now we look at software theft. Is it illegal ? yes. Is hacking the software illegal? yes. Is something done about it by authorities? No. May you do something about it? Well, acting on it is for about 90% illegal. You can’t just pull up the IP of who downloaded a torrent and “act”. What are you going to do legally? About everything you might think of requires the authorities to act or is illegal to do so yourself. Absolutely no one is going to track down some rando hiding behind 10 IP addresses in another country for a game developer if it’s high risk / illegal or not worth the money. Even if you knew who exactly stole from you it’s already in 2000 places on the internet so at that point it’s simply too late. Unless you want to spend full-time sending damage claims I guess.
What about EPIC? There’s an address you can report theft to, but from what I’ve read nothing is actually done? I mean what kind of task force would that be?