Quote Originally Posted by hotnikks View Post
I agree that physical has a lot more value over digital. Take video games for example. What´s terrifying is knowing that is the only physical object in the world just like the Mona Lisa Painting.
P.T. is a prime example in this case. That game was only ever released digitally. And taken off unceremoniously. PS4's with a copy still downloaded on there hard drive are hard to come by I think. Because you can not re-download it. Konami scraped it. But that also happened to the fans, the scraped/datamined the game for every little asset there was. And one has even taken upon themself to rebuild the game in the Unreal 4 engine.

Another wonderful example is this 360 game. Which only ever had a physical release. After that the studio sued Epic. Epic counter sued and won. The judge ruled they had to pay, and the game was not to be sold any more. Now the game itself is not the best. But I am still intrigued in owning a copy of this banned-from-sale game.

Also, look at something like PS Plus or Xbox Game Pass. Both offer free games. As far as Playstation goes. These monthly games are yours, so long as you pay them. As soon as you stop paying them, the rights to the digital games have been revoked. You may have them, and can play them on your PS. But you can again not re-download them. Also, they can update how they see fit. If you have a physical copy, you can always play it and are the sole owner. They can not bar you from playing it.

With digital you lose ownership. This could be due to the subscription model, but also due to the absence of a physical form for the product. Nobody holds a USB drive of hard drive up exclaiming: LOOK WHAT I GOT!

Mona Lisa, that one has been highly digitized. If it does get lost, we have a ton of information on it. For this album, we only have the stories around it.