There is no such thing as "abandonware". It is either legal, or it is not. You are a thief.
And you're a retard, but I digress.
Also, I prefer "software abolitionist".
Those idiots rating my poast negatively, please read one of the numerous sources debunking the concept of "abandonware", such as:
https://bit-tech.net/reviews/gaming/pc/abandonware-the-ethics-and-essentials/1/
Just because you greasy-haired lanklets with your metallica tees and gravy-smeared leather jackets keep repeating the "lol it's really old so it's ok" meme doesn't mean that it becomes reality. Clean yourselves up, get a job, and start contributing to society.
No one gives a single flying fuck.
In any case, the concept of a crime quickly becomes complete farce if there is no injured party.
Piracy is not theft, because theft is clearly defined to involve depriving the other party of something.
Piracy does not deprive anyone of anything. If there are aliens from Tau Ceti listening in on our electronic communications and grabbing contents of our media, we are not suddenly incurring billions of losses because of that.
The only way piracy negatively affects the owners of an IP is through lost sales, which is often fairly nebulous, because it's hard to distinguish between sales lost to piracy, sales gained from it, and downloads with no impact.
The important part is that if there are no sales, there can be no loss of them, and if there is no party who would reap the benefit, there isn't even anyone who could claim losses.
So in the end there are those who want to enjoy - and also preserve - creative works and those who apparently find corporate cock too tasty to even wipe their mouth of what they were guzzling.
And the best way to treat creative media purchases (unless you're giving the money directly to their creators) is to consider them input to the market, because being able to say:
"
says I want shit like this"
Is THE added value of legit purchase (and you're always getting EXACTLY your money's worth).
First of all, I reported you to the authorities
Snitches get stitches.