Reproductions are not "worthless" by any stretch of the imagination. They are worth less than the original but this is easily understandable. It's because the

Reproductions are not "worthless" by any stretch of the imagination. They are worth less than the original but this is easily understandable. It's because they are not the same thing. On the other hand, digital copies are exact to one another and also mass produced by a machine (a computer) and thus not having a different "story" that could set them apart.