This is a glimpse at our future under Techno-Feudalism, by the way. Five companies own all the entertainment and charge you extortionate rates to rent it. Please enjoy these last few years of Steam allowing indie games to be published with $20.00 or lower prices - once Gabe Newell goes away, inide devs are going to get “Spotified” out of existence by whatever venture capitalist buys up Steam.
That was probably a lot more true back when downloading random .exe files on KaZaa or LimeWire was the thing to do.
I mainly downloaded rips that were divided into 20 different parts of a .rar file. Sure, they were always missing some features, but at least I got my games, dammit.