fundamental flaw in downloads as replacement of physical media

[zor]

Even allowing for redownloads does not eliminate fundamental flaw. First, I don't think any company will allow for unlimited redownloads. Second, even if they do, what happens if that company goes out of business! Third, even if they don't go out of business and somehow you just know they won't, what if your account gets hacked -- that is also a single point of failure. Instead of having it rest with a hd crash, it now rests with the security of your account. So at best it just adds one additional single pt of failure and with a backup (assuming you can make one) another additional one, for three total. All three could fail. Whereas with physical media, it is not possible for even 10% of a 400 movie collection to arbitrarily fail. For theft, you can get insurance whereas that doesn't exist for stolen/compromised accounts!