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The national government pays for storage and bandwidth and so on, financed by pay-per-view. Harmful and illegal material will most likely not make the cut but most old movies, old cartoon shows, old talk shows and interviews and so on will be available to the public.
This is both for entertainment and research, optionally they can make a library card add-on to have it as a subscription.
Current services are all in their own corner and often don't have old content such as dubbed cartoons from people's childhood.
Piracy is also limited, finding rugrats in a Scandinavian language is pretty much impossible.
That last paragraph of yours just made things click for me.
I've been wondering what kind of government will potentially do this. While it's a pretty good idea in general, I don't think any government will be able to shoulder the costs while earning the ire of the companies (media companies, etc.).
Norway would, and does! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Norway
All media published in Norway (includes streaming) is required to have a copy sent to the national library.
Edit: Though any licensed media is only available on their network, sadly no taking home. Though things like news papers are publicly available anything from 2 to 7 days later. (when it's irrelevant)