Old thread but is old school talk
I never had run a warez site, but I may know many of who had also a BBS before. My Group been "busted" in 1994 then most of us became good guys (just some continued cracking nintendo and other console stuff). Was before of internet ftp and irc warez scene, our BBS's was mostly running Amiexpress, forgot the name of the other soft for Ms-Dos, had a dozen in a few countries. We was good mates of Razor 1911 and Trsi (when was still 2 groups Tristar + Red Sector) and all the folks at USA BBS's Headquarters (Supplex, Silents, forgot mostly). It was fun for a kid to be there, a list of BBS's of the time refreshes my memory:
trsi1guide.txt
I was really a cracker and trainermaker more than a sysop, my old intros code is easy to find in youtube, that's 1988-1993 stuff, good old 8 and 16bit assembly
Disclaimer: I am posting this since 1) the newest crack is 20+ years ago so prescription period barred by law prosecution and 2) soft cracked is abandonware and its authors unlikely to hate anymore.