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I remember playing Jill of the Jungle in early 1997, it was on one of those "100 in 1" pirate CD that were common around the time the CD-ROM was introduced (became somewhat common in my region).
That same pirate compilation had Commander Keen, Dune 2 and many other games.
Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.
I had a bunch of those myself back then, dozens of great shareware games on each disc. Sure beat trying to download something on slow slow dialup.
And those games usually got really really hard beyond the first episode, so we (at least me) wouldn't have gotten far in the full games anyways.