> As long as Cloanto don't stand in the way of such legal sites
> ever appearing again, then things will be good.

As long as such legal sites don't offer any Cloanto IP without Cloanto's consent (which would mean the site isn't really legal), Cloanto can't do anything about it anyway, even if they wanted to (for whatever reason).

> We know Hyperion would.

No, I certainly don't. Why should Hyperion stand in the way of sites legally offering old games for free download? Sounds like completely made-up nonsense to me. There have been many such sites (past and present) and I don't remember even one incident with them involving Hyperion.