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Here's another way to look at it... maybe it might open your mind a bit.

You spend hours coming up with original content for a mod, new characters, story etc., you put it all together, and pump it out as fast as you can to the public.

Then someone comes along and likes what you have made, but then he remakes your work adding much better Graphics, 3D models, removing bugs, making it less clunky, suddenly his mod is getting more downloads.

Sometime down the line this guy's got way more popular than your mod, he's getting donations, praises, and even getting an offer from the original developer.

I think it's quite clear why people just don't want others to copy their work and ask people to be at least original enough to actually earn their rewards.