> It was employees' personal MP3 collections that seeded their library, so while that statement is true it is a little disingenuous without further context

If anything, that feels even worse.

> I believe some of the early nintendo retro releases were emulators running pirated roms

If Nintendo has a licence for the game that the ROM was an unlicensed pirate of, while that's weird, it doesn't seem fishy in the same way.