> Another significant issue with digital movies and games is the inability to resell the content once you're done with it. Which, as I've recently noticed, in

> Another significant issue with digital movies and games is the inability to resell the content once you're done with it. Which, as I've recently noticed, in turn has the interesting (and from the consumer point of view somewhat unfortunate) side effect that if a particular online release is pulled from distribution, it becomes completely unavailable (at least through legal channels) from one moment to the next. Whereas with physical media first of all being pulled from distribution doesn't automatically mean that all existing stock in all stores worldwide is being recalled (it can happen, but the process is not as intrinsically linked as it is with digital distribution), and secondly in any case there's always the second hand market to completely legally fall back to, so the onset of unavailability is a more gradual process, especially for more popular media where there's a sizeable second hand market offering available. With digital media on the other hand you more or less immediately have to fall back to under-the-table sources if that happens…