We will be very happy to have you as a part of this community!
Please don't beat yourself up too badly -- a lot of people have no idea how the crack sites actually work. Certainly I did not, until long after I had to start dealing with them.
What happens is interesting. It turns out that there is an active community of pirates that provide incentives for people to upload stolen software to their sites. With Zerene Stacker in particular, what happens is that periodically somebody steals a credit card, uses the stolen card to buy a license, then packages the stolen license, copies of my installers, and goodness knows what other malware into a bundle that gets uploaded to "shareware" sites around the world. Sometime later, the credit card holder finds out about the fraud and complains to their credit card company, which responds by taking back the purchase amount plus a chargeback fee from Zerene Systems, leaving me with some actual cash out of pocket plus a rogue license to deal with.
Meanwhile the pirates have gotten benefit from the upload, the credit card company has made money on the chargeback, and my reseller has extracted handling fees as well. In short, everybody except me comes out ahead in the deal!
Of course I find this annoying. But certainly a lot of people who seek out and download the pirated packages either have no idea or have not really thought through what's going on. They just think they're getting a good deal. I have a lot of sympathy for those folks. The pirates themselves, not so much.
--Rik
tnx
Sorry once again and I hope that we will forget this deed of mine and we will hang out together and discuss more on this forum and that you would accept me as a part of this community