Heh, sort of how I see it myself. I figure I've paid for it, hmm (A1200, A3000, A2000 x2, A4000, OS4, and Amiga Forever) 6 or 7 times already, I've got no qualms leeching it off TPB, which I am completely unashamed to say I did recently when building a new UAE machine, solely because couldn't find my AF disc with the ROM's/Images.
I dumped the kickstart images of my A500 and A1200 back in.. the late 90's I think, when emulators like Fellow for MS-DOS started being pretty useable.
Pretty much all Amiga emulators back then contained Amiga software and instructions how to dump your kickstarts in the "how to get started" readme sections. (Don't they still? I think at least WinUAE has transrom distributed with each release). A PD disk with a terminal program, null modem, and then that little hurdle is solved forever. I still have my dumps, and I have not worried about that issue for about.. 15 years? If I should lose them, I would not hesitate a minute to download them though. After all, it is software that I have paid for and am in my full right to use, and that goes for all other Classic owners too.
