A lot of people lately have been mythologizing physical media, acting is if having with physical media automatically means you will always have access to your thing.
If you want physical media instead of DRM-Free media because you think that means you'll get to keep your thing, you don't understand what DRM is.
DRM, or digital rights management, is the mechanism included in something that allows The original publisher to enforce whatever they are claiming as their digital rights. That enforcement mechanism by the way doesn't necessarily even have to be legal.
For example, in the 2000s there are many physical discs you could buy with video games on them, and today if you had the same computer you installed it on that then and the same desk you still running back on back then, you cannot install the game because the DRM servers have long since shut down and it is required to phone home before installation.
By contrast, DRM free media can be fully digital, and in spite of not having an embodied piece of physical media, there is no technological mechanism by which The owner of the copyright that media can enforce their license.
Because DRM-Free means you don't just have a license that can somehow expire, it means you have a copy of the thing with no restrictions. Software can still be licensed to you, and hypothetically a licensing agreement could take away your license to use that software, but without the enforcement mechanism, there is no way to enforce a license that has been revoked. People who still have mp3s should understand this intuitively, because they can take their file and play it on their computer, or play it on their phone, or played in their car, and Even if technically there was these paper somewhere saying they weren't supposed to, such a license would have to be enforced in court rather than using type of technological means.
Back in the 2000s, physical media with DRM existed. You'd buy a game on CD or DVD, and it would phone home to Central servers, only allowing you to install a limited number of times. Sony installed root kits in people's PC if you installed their DRM enabled physical media, hacking your computer and limiting what you can do with your CD or your software.
Contrast with GOG, which lets you install games anywhere any time without an internet connection and without restrictions, and MP3s, which can be played on any mp3 player without restrictions.
If you gave me the option of a CD with a securom DRM secured copy of a program or a digital download of a DRM-Free copy of the same program, I'd pick the latter 100 times out of 100 because I can have the DRM-free version forever and there's nothing anyone can do about it because there's no enforcement mechanism to remove my access to my media remotely.
If you want physical media instead of DRM-Free media because you think that means you'll get to keep your thing, you don't understand what DRM is.
DRM, or digital rights management, is the mechanism included in something that allows The original publisher to enforce whatever they are claiming as their digital rights. That enforcement mechanism by the way doesn't necessarily even have to be legal.
For example, in the 2000s there are many physical discs you could buy with video games on them, and today if you had the same computer you installed it on that then and the same desk you still running back on back then, you cannot install the game because the DRM servers have long since shut down and it is required to phone home before installation.
By contrast, DRM free media can be fully digital, and in spite of not having an embodied piece of physical media, there is no technological mechanism by which The owner of the copyright that media can enforce their license.
Because DRM-Free means you don't just have a license that can somehow expire, it means you have a copy of the thing with no restrictions. Software can still be licensed to you, and hypothetically a licensing agreement could take away your license to use that software, but without the enforcement mechanism, there is no way to enforce a license that has been revoked. People who still have mp3s should understand this intuitively, because they can take their file and play it on their computer, or play it on their phone, or played in their car, and Even if technically there was these paper somewhere saying they weren't supposed to, such a license would have to be enforced in court rather than using type of technological means.
Back in the 2000s, physical media with DRM existed. You'd buy a game on CD or DVD, and it would phone home to Central servers, only allowing you to install a limited number of times. Sony installed root kits in people's PC if you installed their DRM enabled physical media, hacking your computer and limiting what you can do with your CD or your software.
Contrast with GOG, which lets you install games anywhere any time without an internet connection and without restrictions, and MP3s, which can be played on any mp3 player without restrictions.
If you gave me the option of a CD with a securom DRM secured copy of a program or a digital download of a DRM-Free copy of the same program, I'd pick the latter 100 times out of 100 because I can have the DRM-free version forever and there's nothing anyone can do about it because there's no enforcement mechanism to remove my access to my media remotely.
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Physical media doesn't mean you own it forever either, even if it's DRM-free. It deteriorates and crumbles just like all of man's creations.