Well - the reality is, that I work for a commercial software producer, as a developer
Taking down pirated software which decreases authors income is one thing (IMHO still not always OK; some PC games I purchased long time ago can be played on modern systems only if a crack is applied, from my point of view this is unacceptable) - taking down the software which was either free (like demo versions - these weren't even pirated...), or basically abandoned (not sold any more since a long time and so outdated, that is now interesting mainly for historic reasons) is something completely different. And, for a retrocomputing fan, it will always be very sad.