If emulators (not roms) are known to be legal, then how is removing them from the repositories "playing it safe". I agree with what a previous poster said about the FOSS community being very careful about the law, but I believe that is this was a TRUE FOSS site like gnu.org and they were in a similar situation, then the content would remain on the site until it was clear that it was illegal to host it. Censoring content in this manner without any proof of guilt reminds me of ISP's blocking internet accounts without any proof of wrongdoing simply because the RIAA or MPAA asks them nicely (or not nicely). Regardless of whether this settles down and the emulators are returned to the repo's, this whole event is very unsettling from a free (as in speech) software perspective.