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Fun fact : The first time I ever encountered the name F95 on the internet, was from searching cracked versions of the annoying DRM'd LoP games. Alongside the cheats mod that made those games playable. I think the site wasn't even active at that time.To be fair this isn't a piracy website either. It's a porn/sharing website mostly focused on non-drm games, not nearly as bad as actual piracy websites where people actively crack drm content and share it for free.
If anything the publicity these games receive by being shared outside of patreon is the major reason they get popular in the first place, seems like a pretty symbiotic relationship to me which is why most devs don't encourage it but also don't DRM their games, which they are free to do so but most don't because they know it would just lower their numbers as already happened with some devs in the past.
It is true that with time and traffic, it can also serve as a showcase, but the original purpose still exists.