Who writes software cracks and how do they work?

Today I was asking myself who invests their time to hack into a software or videogame to realease cracked versions for free to the world. Are there any known groups of people who do this? Most importantly I was trying to understand how "cracks" or keygens work and what kind of research is behind it. When a "crack" is released, are there any writeups of how it works?(maybe some source code, or what vulnerability was exploited). To me it's very interesting and I can find just very little online, knowing how software is cracked would also help to improve security measures on them, so I don't know why It's seen as an "obscure" topic.

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