Yes people make creative things, but they don’t make games that requires a game studio and give them away for free
They used to, they called it shareware. It could happen again.
Look, if my personally ignoring copyrights for certain things causes certain media companies to go bankrupt and causes a whole re-think of how the creative economy should work, I think that's a good thing. I don't think my choices are that powerful, but we can always hope.