Every piece of Amiga hardware and software in my posession has been paid for. Not that I can afford it, or that I mind copying software, but, I choose to show my support for the Amiga. That's all. In fact, I have on several occasions bought a program twice that I only use one copy of, just because I like it so much. I actually have 3 or more 3.1 ROMs that aren't in computers, by the way. I don't feel guilty running UAE with 3.1 images on two computers as a result, but, that's not why I bought the ROMs.
Honestly, if you gave me $1 for an Amiga program I have written, that is more incentive than you can imagine for me to produce more Amiga software! And, you can bet your life that that $1 goes towards my Amiga, which means, I have given that $1 to some Amiga hardware producer, or other Amiga software producer. It keeps going.
This idea that "I just want to burn one for me" doesn't add up. If everyone just pirated one ROM, (don't kid yourself, an idiot can have a ROM pirated. I know several people with ROM burners for hire!) then no one would need to buy any...
Right! Just let me just steal one of your cars. It's only one, it won't matter. I promise I won't steal anyone else's. Plus, it's a few jahrs old. So, it really doesn't matter. If it were new, it would matter.
Here's something I really plan to do one of these days: I want to burn a 3.9 ROM. I just want one so I don't have to double-boot or worry about my ROM image getting corrupted during debugging sessions. I have several legal copies of 3.9, so burning myself a 3.9 kickstart is not wrong.
