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What if you were presented with the choice to download a prepatched binary or a file that allowed another program to do the patching? How about if you had the choice between downloading a python CLI keygen or a compiled gui/cli ELF or PE keygen? Granted, that would allow the DRM makers to more easily modify their key validation or obfuscation
If the process was reproducible (i.e. there's a published checksum for the prepatched binary, and a script that you can run on your local unpatched binary, which creates a binary with the exact same checksum) I would feel pretty good about that.
Run the Keygen in a VM, job done 👍