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However, it by definition does not harm the companies.
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I think the companies who go to the trouble of sending lawyers to abandonware sites to defend their copyrights, such as Vivendi, would disagree. What do you mean "by definition"? Where are you seeing a definition of abandonware that says "games available for download as long as it doesn't hurt the copyright holder"? And how would that be enforced?
Easy for us to say "it's not fair, I want to play that old game, so copyright laws are stupid." As a working writer who depends on the right to own what I create (what a concept!) and continue trying to make make money off of it for as long as I want to*, I don't exactly feel the same way. Neither did Metallica.
*For the next 80 years, or whatever the timeframe is.
