[Matl]

I think they do. Maybe not specifically how much will it last, but the average person does understand nothing they buy last literally 'forever' and they would certainly have discovered with movies, music etc. too.

With physical discs however, you gain the ability to cheaply back them up, lend them, sell them etc. and 'someone' will always have a working copy of whatever you might want.

Not so with digital only media.

[brianwawok]

To back up a video disk you need to break multiple layers of copy protection and tricks. Not something the average non-technical user can ever do. You also need local redundant storage.

[weard_beard]

Courts have upheld that you have a right to break copyright protection to preserve your purchased physical media and upheld the right to make and distribute tools to pursue this. Until the law catches up and does the same for digital you are wrong to compare digital and physical media this way.

[crtasm]

I didn't need to do anything complicated last time I backed up a bluray, the software made it essentially "click this button then wait a while"

[Ferret7446]

It's even easier to back up digital media. How is ripping a CD easier than dragging a folder to another hard drive?

Not all digital media has DRM, and I assume all game CDs now have DRM, so ironically they'd be harder to back up.