LogFAQs > #979028271

That's the point he's making. Far more so than other media, retro games are restricted by the hardware they were released on, outside of comparatively rare ports/remakes that make them accessible with modern stuff, and efforts to pirate stuff that isn't available on modern systems tend to be treated more harshly than pirating other media. Part of that is that the medium is relatively new and nothing is public domain yet (nor will it be for quite some time), but console games in particular have been quite deliberately designed to be accessible for only a very short period of time.