[The Fifth Horseman]

Not only it was never that bad, it was an attitude mostly expressed by newcomers who just wanted to get the games free ("Legality, what's that? Games should be free!!!" kind of people).

Most of the long-timers and all of the staff see it quite a bit differently: it's Abandonia's goal to ensure old games are not forgotten and still available.
If their owners realize old game X is worth repackaging and distributing again, then it's mission accomplished for us.

GOG adds them to their catalogue The truth is that no self-respecting abandonware site would ever knowingly provide downloads of games which are still sold from a legitimate source (unless legal owners released them as freeware, but that's a very different situation).

In fact, I'll go and say something else:
GOG staff once expressed that they believe abandonware websites removing downloads of games available on GOG indicates some sort of change of heart on our side.
The truth is that it's the appearance of GOG and others like them (as well as expansion by other digital stores to cover that niche) that is a victory for us - because someone, somewhere finally got the point we've been ceaselessly hammering in for years.