I'm not familiar with all of the details, but a lot of the people behind Macintosh Garden[1] believe that Macintosh Repository scraped their content directly. I suppose it's not like either of them owns the rights to this stuff, but it definitely feels scummy.

If you have anything to upload, please use Macintosh Garden. If you want to download something, I guess you could use Macintosh Repository instead, so you use up their bandwidth, but please don't give them any money!

I'm sure the submitter didn't know better, but I really wish Macintosh Garden was the site that got submitted...

1: https://macintoshgarden.org/

> It's not like anyone owns the copyright to this stuff

I would think the copyright still exists. Maybe the owner just isn’t aware of the infringement.

Oh, by "anyone" I meant, "any of the sites currently hosting this content". This should be clearer in my edit; sorry for the confusion.

I have yet to encounter a paywall on that site. I don't know what you are talking about here. It looks like they are accepting donations for server costs, but I've confirmed that the downloads are free.

What's unethical about distributing abandonware? I don't see any harm in finding use of something that would otherwise be wasted.

I believe GP is arguing it's unethical to charge money for distributing abandonware.