| Chrkeller said: Under what entitlement would the public have in owning something they did not create? If I build a chair... and I don't want my chair anymore, I have to give it to somebody???? |
This is actually done for other media already. Under german law print publishers have to give a copy of their published print work to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (german national library) for archival. Internationally similar laws exist, I think in the US it is the Library of Congress that gets the archival copies. This also isn't a big intrusion into the rights of the company, as they already produce many copies. I think similar laws exist for movies.
Similarly it could work for games. That idea isn't especially strange, seeing as this already happens for other media. I don't know why many in this thread consider this idea impossible.
