EMPiRE,
Yeah I do realise this, and that is why often you will see with some of the No-CD patches that they are accompanied by the "Fixed Exe" and also the much smaller patch, the patch obviously removes the CD Check from the Fixed Exe, which most crackers don't remove, as there is not need to if you going to use one of thier ISO or "Warez" releases.
But if you were to make available these No-CD patches, then the people can still use them, all they need to do is find the Fixed Exe (if you know where to look you can find them) then all they need to do is download the no-cd patch from GCW then find the Fixed Exe from somewhere else....and in the nfo file all you need to put is just for them to find the fixed exe release and run the patch, this would avid your site hsoting any of the fixed exe's which may contain some of the games code.
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If you would create a patch, by comparing the original EXE and decrypted EXE then the patch will be bigger than the orginal EXE (as the files are just too different), so this is useless. Most likely you did not try this yourself
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This may have to be the method for the furture for sites like GCW and alike. To have the No-CD patch bigger than the fixed exe or original exe is better than having no no-cd patch at all. And best of all the No-CD patch wouldn't contain any of the games code or coding, which is perfectly legal in USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, France Russia, China, Japan and many more other contries. (Im pretty sure some countries in Europe, especially those who are members of the European Union (the Euros currency and all) aren't allowed to backup any of their games or software (which someone has already mentioned) in any shape of form, which is just crazy.
But in regards to the No-cd patches, I doubt any of the crackers (major ones anyhow) will make no-cd patches for thier releases instead of "fixed exe's", so its left to just the people who submit files to GCW to do this.