@ kix300r
Like you say and I agree 100% with it, if it's still being produced and available to buy then I'm against having software on sites where you can download it for free while someone is still actually producing it and making it available for sale...
But when it comes to the software that is no longer available to buy (for whatever the reasons may be) whether it be games, apps, Workbench disks, magazine coverdisks, etc... then I don't see how anyone can complain, call it piracy and all that BS when the stuff is still being saught after by folk who want to use it...
If the copyright holder or author all these years later objects to their software being free to download on sites, even though it's no longer available to buy anywhere then instead of complaining about it, there is nothing to stop them starting up their own site and selling it as a download, that way they have no production costs for stuff like floppy disks, packaging postage etc... and I'm pretty sure they would in most cases sell enough to make some money on it...
But no all, those thousands of games and apps that were written for the Amiga are left to rot (or would be if it weren't for the sites where you can download them) as most of the companies, copyright holders, authors are long since gone from the Amiga scene and couldn't care less about them...
So I applaud any site that freely makes all this old software available to those who still want to use them. It's only the greetin faced gits who crop up on sites like this and try to make out they're some kind of legal experts that do all the complaining which is pathetic really when the original copyright owners couldn't give a crap about all that old software and are quite happy to leave it gathering dust and be lost forever when there are still folk out there who would be only to glad to be able to get hold of it and use it...
At the end of the day though, it doesn't matter what anyone on these forums has to say when they complain and call it piracy about all this old software, as there are countless sites on the internet where you can find all this software and nothing the copyright mafia on these forums can ever say will stop it...
I honestly don't get why such folks complain about it, I think they just like to try and make out to everyone else that they think they're smarter than everyone else by spouting absolute drivel about copyright laws when as I say the actual copyright holders couldn't give a Sh!t about it...
