@Iznougoud: The fatal mistake you made was ignoring a portion of the copyright notice that appears in the Amiga manuals:
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The distribution and sale of these products are intended for the use of the original purchaser only. Lawful users of these programs are hereby licensed only to read the programs, from their media into memory of a computer, solely for the purpose of executing the programs.
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The reason that backup copies are allowed to be made is because it is specifically permitted under the US Copyright Act (USC17 Section 117), if you do not have the original disks you do not have any legal basis to copy or download them from somewhere else.
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Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid
Not really true, because Cloanto still sell it's Amiga Forever  I think as long as they do, there is little chance they make the kickstart ROMs or the Workbench disks available. |
Logically that has no bearing on the situation, as stated previously Cloanto are licensees not rights holders. I've always wondered whether Cloanto really do have permission from all the rights holders whose software they include with AF.