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A "cracked version" in this context usually means simply the legal version with a "no-cd" crack.
That is, a crack which bypasses the CD check for games that require a CD in the drive to run (which is often used for copy protection, but sometimes is just because it's that way). Because Linux accesses CD-ROM drives differently from Windows, this is often necessary to get games that would otherwise run under Linux (meaning that there's no conflicts between the main program and Wine) to even start under Linux.
The game manufacturers may not like it, exactly, but there's nothing particularly illegal about saying that you'd rather not be forced to have your perfectly legal CD in the drive while playing. Lots of people with only one CD-ROM drive own various games that they prefer to (for example) listen to different music via CD audio while playing, or play on a laptop and prefer not to carry their fragile external CD-ROM drive (not to mention the fragile CD) around.
So it's a gray area-- there are valid reasons for such a crack, and invalid/illegal ones too.
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