> Doing it with a digital file ... digital distribution ... extend first sale doctrine to digital files I fully understand, but there's got to be a better way

> Doing it with a digital file ... digital distribution ... extend first sale doctrine to digital files I fully understand, but there's got to be a better way to describe this line in the sand given that DVDs contain digital files. "Physical" doesn't work because networks have a physical layer. "Stream" is also problematic because bitstreams are present on any kind of media. Even "network" doesn't quite cut the mustard because a chain of video stores could be described as a trade network. "Tangible" comes damn close, but suppose the baud rate is slow enough and the voltage high enough that I can discern the download by touching the wire? What, then, is the unambiguous word for what we're talking about here? If it really boils down to letting time elapse between views/customers, shouldn't that be what the law demands?