You have a dedicated community of people who love sticking their fingers in the eyes of giant media conglomerates in their free time vs massive media conglomerates funneling millions of dollars into nullifying that work via DRM, code changes, etc.
Its an uphill battle, but it comes with the territory.
I was gonna say, then some poor bastards have to take care of him, but then I realized that anyone who would do that probably fuckin sucks too…