I was playing some Genisis games last night o an emulator and I begane to think of a question on the ethics of software downloads.

There is a ton of games and other software that the companies no longer make and/or support. Take for example Doom 2, Id no longer makes that game anymore because they're working on other projects like Doom 3, etc. This concept is called "Abandonware" for all of you non-geeks out there. So my question is, should it be ok to download items on a p2p network that the companies no longer make anymore but if you went back five or ten years you'd have to buy it with cash in hand?