@Thomas Richter - Thanks for your long and well written response.
Also to be clear I do not encourage anyone to share old software at all, that's up to the individual themself to decide if they want to do or not.
Also it's insane to think that someone would hunt after 20+ year old software that has not been sold in near that amount of time just to make some bucks, but sure it does happen but in all cases iv'e seen and one been a part of it was just a copyright watchdog and a cease and desist letter.
You can compare it, because in both cases you're depriving someone. Copyright is an exclusive right to copy, they don't have to copy it but you that doesn't give you permission. You might refuse to sell something because you're trying to sell something different.
But I'd love to see you trying your pseudo law in court.
I understand what you mean, but in many old Amiga software (and other systems) cases there are verry little to no chance of someone releasing the software again or any superior product and thus not wanting anyone to have the former software. There also is many cases where it's even hard to figure out (they don't know them selves) who owns the rights to something (and source long gone), many games are at that stage and it's just sad to see the software dissapere. I mean some people have put down a lot of work into something and then it's just a shame for that to be forgotten on old failing floppies.
That's just my opinion on it and my main reason why I archive and save a lot of old software and when saying software im talking about anything from games to productive suites etc.
I am surely not doing it to hurt anyone.
And in cases where a game is re-released on IOS/Android/Windows PC or something, who really thinks that the original Amiga version copies hurts those sales?, Amiga users buy it for the new system if they want it even if they have it for original hardware or not.
I think ive bought pretty much every single re-release of anything Amiga related on platforms that I own. I also buy every new Amiga release that comes even if not to common nowdays, I think the last thing I bought was tales of gorluth.
In short for me is preservation to hinder something from getting lost forever important.
PS: Sorry about my bad late night English.
Edit: Also some games and software are pretty much impossible to get your hands on these days on original media, myself are still looking for a boxed version of Moonstone but prices are 500$ and up which is hard to justify (still kicking myself for not buying it when I found it for 200$ two years ago), because some titles like that is hard to get hold and demand is higher then suply it's insane that people should not be able to play it anymore by using digital copies.
Edit: can anyone please suply some court cases involving private persons and distubution of 15+ year old software? Ive searched here in Sweden and can not find a single case, everything is just about new software and movies/music. Seems hard to find this anywhere from any place in the world.