Yes, GCW is dancing on the edge of the razor blade of legality with "legal" cracks (as defined above) already. So, the best it can do is to not host/support "illegal" cracks, don't you think?
Also, consider who download cracks from GCW... People who download pirated copies of games don't need to: the crack is included in the pirated copy and the so-called "dox" groups release cracked game updates, too; these are all available at your local warez site right now, for free or for relatively low prices.
And, since GCW gets cracks (crack-only packages) from such warez releases, everything you find on GCW has already been available on a warez site hours/days/weeks ago! So why would pirates want/have to download
anything from GCW?!
I understand that this distinction seems to be hipocrisy to you. However, from a much broader point of view, democracy and the notion of egality in a capitalistic society is also hipocrisy, and a much bigger one at that. As someone pointed out yesterday - unfortunately, I deleted the post as it was completely off-topic there -, if some people weren't as greedy, not only prices (in general) would be significantly lower but also wages significantly higher, as there would be no "middle man" (the capitalist himself) taking money away from both the buyer and the seller. If a game didn't cost as much as you earn in several days (remember: not all people have wages of several thousand dollars a year but computer games have the same price everywhere!) but only an hour or two, why would you bother to (try to) pirate it?
(Note that I refuse to use the word "steal" or "theft". It makes me furious to see those damned "you wouldn't steal a car so remember: copying a movie is crime" adverts on movie DVD's as these two are not comparable. And, if I bought the DVD then this advert is wasting MY time - every time I try to watch the damn movie! -; and if I downloaded/copied the DVD then I probably don't give a shit anyway...)
And as for what developers/publishers don't want me to do... Would you consider no-intro packs "illegal"? If they modify the game files, they may be illegal. However, am I expected to see the same "hi, it's company X, it was us who developed/published/whatever this game", "this game is best played with an X video/sound card" intro movies (or rather adverts?) and the "if you pirate this game, we'll find you and burn your house down" screens - which cannot be even skipped in some games so it may take up to half a minute or more to get through them! - every time I play the game?! I don't have much time to play games so I play only a bit every day - this means a lot of watching this shit. But even when playing a game (or watching a movie)
once, I don't want my time to get wasted because I don't have much of it. Can't I have control over what's happenning on MY computer?! Yes, I want to skip intros in games (or, even better, get rid of them completely) and, yes, I want to get rid of anything other than the selection screens, the main movie and the extras on a DVD. If this means modifying the game files/EXE or rebuilding+shrinking the movie DVD with the appropriate software (to a backup DVD - without stupid intros, copy protection and user operation prohibition - that I'm gonna use for watching the movie) then so be it!