Pirated Games

I recently discovered https://gamedrive.org/ ran by the GAMEDRIVE.ORG user on cs.rin.ru (https://cs.rin.ru/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1769786)

They are pretty active and also run https://pixeldrain-bypass.cybar.xyz/

Seems to upload legit versions, and they provide alternative DDL ways to download from repackers. The only problem is that they mark their own P2P uploads/releases as "scene releases". Probably just a misunderstanding of the term.

Multiple people on the subreddit have reported getting their stuff from here and it being relatively legit.

Would be good to take the time to review their website and potentially include it in the megathread

Once there was a time were applications weren't forced to go online, because not everyone was able to be online. You needed registration keys for most of the software and at this point the demo scene came in.

I really like those key gens (key generators) with a small 2D or even 3D animation, midi sound and the actual key generation.

But like 10 years ago, Windows (or was it an antivir app?) started to delete those without asking me, because it recognized it as malware (yeah, sure...)

I once collected them, because for me they were some kind of cool collectible art (not like this NTFs bullshit). But I lost all of them at once.

Is there someone who collects them or is there even a publicly accessible place to watch them?

btw. stuff like this was one of the reasons to never use Windows again.