Illegal Amiga software, what are the rules (US)

[Piru]

Is Amiga software still under copyright?

Wikipedia: Copyright - How long copyright lasts

[Piru]

@Darrin

so is that music you admitted to downloading on another thread

What music? What thread?

Even if I was, the Finnish law says

Anyone is allowed to copy music, movies, and television and radio broadcasts for their own private use. This is based on the Finnish Copyright Act, which allows published works to be copied without the author's permission. This type of copying is called "private copying."

In 1984, the Finnish Copyright Act was amended so that a "blank tape levy" was introduced to compensate private copying. Due to the European Union Copyright Directive the blank tape levy is now called "fair compensation for private copying." The purpose of fair compensation for private copying is to guarantee that when an EU Member State allows private copying, the creators and other right-owners will receive fair compensation.

source

Note that this does not mean that copyright would not apply. Of course it does. Also, this does not mean you would somehow be allowed to pirate computer programs.

Oh, I am sure the above does not apply to United States.

[Piru]

Even Amiga Forever owners without a real Amiga need access to ADF files because an original Amiga floppy game is not going to work in their PC's floppy drive.

Reading Amiga Floppy Disks on PC

[Piru]

Ah, so you're proud of the fact that you're countrymen are a bunch of music-copying pirates.

Yeah. We're bunch of liberals and commies and we're coming for you...

It's just Americans copying software that's disgusting.

Well, DMCA is quite stupid, but fear not: EU's new equivalent is almost as bad.

[Piru]

What could they possibly have done to make it worse?

A lot