If the copyrights owners can't be bothered at this point ,I say people who get all exercised about "pirating" of old,long abandoned software need to "get a life"!
Some no doubt are incensed by the "loss in value" of their"extemely rare,original NIB" software collections;tough!
All that high-priced software sitting in unopened boxes ,and who gets to enjoy it?You have to USE the item for full enjoyment.Are some Amigans like the secret collector who has works of art in a vault where no one can enjoy them?
Copyrights and patents should never have been extended to the current ridiculous span and even many software patents should never have been granted in the first place.If you can't market and profit from the work in the first 14 or 28 years (as in previous versions of the laws)then let society benefit by public domain.
No work was created in a vacuum ,everyone builds on that which came before him.
