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So if I'm understanding what you are saying correctly this is pro "book" burning. Only in this case it is games. If a group or entity wants to make a piece of history more scarce or wipe it from the planet because they disagree with it, buying up or destroying as many physical copies that exist would work because people legally can't back them up or print more copies essentially?
The IP owner can print more, but if the owner is gone or legally unclear, then yes. Although I don't think this was the real intention, because greed looks like a simpler reason and fits