lol yes i appreciate the legality aspect. I’ve been into retrogaming and the emulation scene for about 18 years now (wow i feel old now :( ) I’ve heard every argument going for and against ROMs etc.
Given that there are hundreds of emulators and systems which run emulators, Retropie is not a high enough profile to make the Emulator police start hunting down the developers of this with C&D letters rather than the developers of the emulators themselves or the sites which allow the roms to be downloaded. So really there is no need to pretend.

I don’t see him chiming in on every single MAME related query asking them about the warehouse they would have to own to store all of the original cabinets/jamma boards. ;)

The zip question is indeed a valid one which I think many people would benefit from, so i can’t see the need for a sarcastic and flippant remark.

Maybe he forgot a wink smiley…. then it would have all been fine :)