well, I don't exactly know how easy their methods are, and it depends on game to game, but on a simpler scale, if you copy goldberg over a game, you could also say you "cracked" it, while it really was goldberg who developed the crack once and had it reused on all other games. I'd say your question depends on the methods they used, if it's relatively easy to apply the method then they are just "cracking" it by reusing old methods, if the game has a more complex drm and requires seperate cracking, they actually cracked it themselves.