also this

also what about Abandonware its like the biggest website of rom distribution and as the law states if the website has the license for uploading rom files then its fully legal
another interesting fact is that the legal issues over old roms work only in case if the studio that developed them is still around
like nintendo for example
and a studio lets say Coktel Vision which developed asterix games stopped its existing in 2005
Modding is not illegal at all (even though Nintendo would claim otherwise the bastards). If it was illegal you would also not be allowed to try and fix your own toaster.
But yeah, these laws are fucked.
its technically intellectual properly violation
which means that we all are cell mates
and our crew head of operation is Adrien with his editor
these laws are just written
Dude, the entire gaming industry gets to share the same cell xD