Here's an update on yesterday's situation! 

So after downloading ALL the re-uploads I could find, I discovered that they didn't bother to remove the credits I hid into the game as a precaution measure... thank goodness...  so the credits are still inside the game file, but they're missing on the homepage of one of the sites and replaced with their URL instead.  While at least now I know there is some form of credits attribution still remaining, I don't advise downloading from those sites. The game files have been inserted by the re-uploaders into a series of "rard" extention archives for some reasons, and the builds go up to Ver 1.1. The game is running Ver 1.3 and soon I'll upload Ver 1.4, so I definetly don't reccomend.

And it looks like those uploads have been sitting there since 24 hrs within game launchthey were really fast, I'm impressed!

I sure had a great scare but it's not as bad as I initially envisioned (at least the credits survived within the game), but please be careful and download the Itchio version instead. Thank you for bearing with me, I was really upset yesterday...!