ESA is a corporation paid by the developpers they represent so they police the internet to make sure no pirate version of their games is available freely on the Internet.
If a game is ESA protected, that mean that the developpers are paying so nobody can download them from the net. This mean that if a Sierra game is ESA protected, then Sierra is under ESA juridiction.
Don't contact them to ask where you can download their protected games, they'll either not reply or feel insulted. Chance are that they are still selling that game at a stupidly high price. It's still available tough, so it goes against the abandonware rules to make it available for download. The main goal of abandonware is to make sure old games don't just disapear or get forgotten, so having companies still selling their old games is a good thing from our point of view.
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