Nice kneejerk response. Seriously though, no, it is not "whitewashing". It is a very specific term to describe a type of software that is considered obsoleted

Nice kneejerk response. Seriously though, no, it is not "whitewashing". It is a very specific term to describe a type of software that is considered obsoleted and 'abandoned' to the point that the rightsholder (if it is known at all) is virtually guaranteed not to make claims on it, simply because it's too old to be relevant. In the broader sense of the term, it is also used for software that has attained an unclear legal status because of some weird historical oddity that isn't handled by copyright law; many undocumented IP acquisitions, death of the entire family tree of the rightsholder, and so on. What you are describing, "piratism" (which, by the way, is the first time I see that particular spelling of "piracy") is what somebody supposedly does with it, not what it is. They describe two entirely different things. Not to mention that in some cases, distribution of abandonware can legitimately not fall under the banner of "piracy" due to one of the aforementioned edge cases.