I think I remember hearing about this before. Like back in 2012 or something like that. Some group had cracked securom on a bunch of older games. Then the publishers caught wind of it and just wholesale grabbed it and stuck that on Steam.
At the time some gaming journalism site contacted a lawyer, (could be different now, I haven't looked up the applicable laws) there's not much the cracking scene can do, as the lawyer said it's basically just modifying pre existing code, and adding or removing some as needed. So technically the code is still owned by the devs/publishers, there's no laws being broken in them just taking it and selling it.
I think I remember hearing about this before. Like back in 2012 or something like that. Some group had cracked securom on a bunch of older games. Then the publishers caught wind of it and just wholesale grabbed it and stuck that on Steam.
At the time some gaming journalism site contacted a lawyer, (could be different now, I haven't looked up the applicable laws) there's not much the cracking scene can do, as the lawyer said it's basically just modifying pre existing code, and adding or removing some as needed. So technically the code is still owned by the devs/publishers, there's no laws being broken in them just taking it and selling it.
Still feels shady, though.