Mnementh said:
Well first, the libertarian view that even immaterial things are owned by someone is not how the world runs. Governments put all sort of limits on ownership, be it of material or immaterial stuff. That is the first ot accept here, that governments can and actually do put limits on it. Now in the concrete, the archival rules as I said already apply to other media. Now games have some specialties that have to be cleared, as they are interactive software, but overall there is no general hindrance to a similar archival. So it is not unreasonable if the state demand such archival duties and it also wouldn't equal a disappropriation. Now to the second part: you assume many people mean something else with preservation than preservation? Well, it may be your assumption, but nobody here in this thread actually demanded that pirate copies become legal or stuff like that, did they? So applying some stance you assume to argue against some other stance is not helping your case. As I said, archival is done for other media and that isn't the source of piracy. |
Except the OP in this thread had made is abundantly clear in previous threads that old games should be readily available to gamers. So it isn't exactly a jump. Pretty clear to be honest what the goal is.
As far as governments doing things.... doesn't mean it is right. I've shared my opinion and people are free to disagree but I'm still entitled to my opinion, I believe in ownership.
