This is actually one of the major reasons I don't release pretty much any of the work I do to anyone except personal friends and those that pay me to make them pep files (they're less likely to steal my work)
Your statements about people ripping game models is extremely untrue as well. The majority of modelers that create pep files make their models from scratch. So just basically saying "oh well you made a recreation of something that happens to be copyrighted, so I have full rights to use it however I please" is extremely insulting to those that do make pep files for you.
People on here that create pep files for you do an immense amount of work to create these files for you. FOR FREE. Insulting them by stealing their hard work is hardly a fine thank you for all their hard work.