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>The actual artwork on a piece of paper will typically be lower fidelity than a digital version of it, and paper degrades faster than CD-roms.

I think the post does a nice job of countering this; a physical object will always contain much more information (in the Shannonian sense) than any digital alternative could, and that goes far beyond things like DPI.

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Which is to say that it will contain more noise. The digital equivalent will be more faithful in recording deliberate details, which is surely the part that's art.