Oh, I read the post by itself/out of order as a new reply forgetting about the Otto crap.
The reason he is paranoid is he has gone through 2 different lawsuits with Namco over Ms. Pac stuff in the past including him suing Namco over a re-release in the early 2000s, iirc. That's why he is paranoid, because Namco probably wants revenge on his stupid ass. Otherwise, nobody has ever been sued over dumping and leaking a rom to my knowledge so there is no reason to be so scared about it.