It's going to be a long time before I'm comfortable with download-only purchases. When I have a physical copy, my options for what to do with it seem to be much greater. When it's just downloaded data, it can be problematic to share with other people, and I have to rely on the company I purchased from not going out of business and leaving me high and dry when something happens to my downloaded copy. And it seems like we're still too far away from everyone having internet speeds that would allow this kind of delivery for the cutting-edge in quality. If this is the future that the market forces on me, I'm not sure I'll be too thrilled.
Same here. I agree. Look what happened recently with Amazon's Kindle. They pulled a book and remotely deleted the title from hundreds, if not thousands, of customers completely without warning. Even with the refund they issues that would really piss me off. It became a PR nightmare for them.
Given the behavior of the movie studios, I wouldn't put it past them to decide to suddenly change the terms of the agreement and remotely expire or delete titles unannounced and as they saw fit.
In other words, digital downloads with DRM leave the big-brother factor in play. I don't mind that on its own, but I do mind it being in the hands of the movies studios - which to date have repeatedly shown fairly poor greed driven judgment when it comes to dealing with consumers.
