Maybe not entirely relevant, but GOG is (still) advertising on several abandonware sites. Probably even have partnership deals with a few of them, since anyone who try to 'download' a game from the site will be redirected to GOG catalogue (if the game is available for sale there). It can be argued that public perception on the morality of abandonware is not as negative as on piracy or crack scene, but still....

Maybe gog should put in the credits "DRM in this game was removed with Hoodlums crack. Kudos to you, Hoodlum team!" and be done with it?

Wishbone: Mudlord has made tremendous contributions to the software community, his points are more valid than most here so cut him a bit of slack. The guy does know what he is talking about, unlike some here who resort to pointless bantering and bashing.
Really, how can you be sure of that? Crackers aren't the ones to blame for this, piracy would still exist regardless of whether or not there was anyone to crack the software. Regardless of whether it's legal or not, regardless of what anyone thinks here, crackers are actually doing everyone a service by removing DRM. Removing DRM that is overly annoying, intrusive and can be potentially damaging just because greedy corporate bastards can't get it through their thick skulls that DRM just doesn't work and causes more grief to legitimate users than it does the actual pirates.
Pretty soon our future will be games that use a subscription based model that retail for full price ($49.99 - $59.99), expire after a while and require you to keep paying to play.
Believe It..
After all teh evil piracy is cutting into their multi-million dollar profits so drm is sought so they don't have to sacrifice a trip on their private jets or luxury limo's and god forbid travel like a "normal" person oh my! Never mind that DRM essentially does nothing to curb piracy and those who pirate would have likely not purchased the game to begin with.
I for one am infuriated about DRM, which is why I refuse to buy any new Ubisoft title. If the DRM is bad enough, I either won't buy the game or I'll crack it immediately after buying it.

Mudlord has made tremendous contributions to the software community, his points are more valid than most here so cut him a bit of slack. The guy does know what he is talking about, unlike some here who resort to pointless bantering and bashing.
Really, how can you be sure of that? Crackers aren't the ones to blame for this, piracy would still exist regardless of whether or not there was anyone to crack the software. Regardless of whether it's legal or not, regardless of what anyone thinks here, crackers are actually doing everyone a service by removing DRM. Removing DRM that is overly annoying, intrusive and can be potentially damaging just because greedy corporate bastards can't get it through their thick skulls that DRM just doesn't work and causes more grief to legitimate users than it does the actual pirates.
Pretty soon our future will be games that use a subscription based model that retail for full price ($49.99 - $59.99), expire after a while and require you to keep paying to play.
Believe It..
After all teh evil piracy is cutting into their multi-million dollar profits so drm is sought so they don't have to sacrifice a trip on their private jets or luxury limo's and god forbid travel like a "normal" person oh my! Never mind that DRM essentially does nothing to curb piracy and those who pirate would have likely not purchased the game to begin with.
I for one am infuriated about DRM, which is why I refuse to buy any new Ubisoft title. If the DRM is bad enough, I either won't buy the game or I'll crack it immediately after buying it.
Note to staff: Please remove my last comment with the failed quote tags, thanks.

If DRM wasn't cracked, we would still be at one of two systems: CD keys or disk checks. There would be no need for anything more. No need for online activations, as the above would work just fine. It's people cracking the above methods which made companies believe that they needed more strenuous DRM.

not so long ago learned all about the fact that 2 games sold in this store are cracked .exe file,
Games: Flotout, Arcanum
I do not want to buy a hacked game, I want the original and not crack
I want to know whether the cracks were replaced by real files or not?

GOG modifies gamefiles ALL THE TIME - in these 2 examples they cheated and used cracks from the cracker community but usually they just do it themselves, for example, one game that I'm currently playing is 'The Even More Incredible Machine' where GOG or someone else has modified the game files so that the game lets you play whatever 3 objects you choose on the copy protection screen at boot instead of kicking you out if you get it wrong
Also GOG hacked out countless 'CD Checks' - the equivalent of 'No CD' cracks - how else do you think all these old games play from your HD and not a CD?
It's just part of GOGs efforts to preserve games for the future, DRM and copy protection scheme free - get OVER it already!

If you want the "original" you may have to go to ebay or amazon or the like.

Any "cracks" they do are so the game will run without media and without DRM. And they are "cracked" legally so no worries there.

If it's just a "purist" thing then try sites such as I just recommended, above.

Cheers