[matwood]

> I can dig out my dad’s old records and play them and pass them onto my children.

What if you lost or otherwise destroyed/damaged the record, should you still have access through some other means or be forced to buy it again?

[tikkabhuna]

I think that's on you. I'd expect it to be on me. If I bought another physical product (a bike, football, scissors, knives), I'd expect to buy a replacement if I couldn't fix it.

That's definitely a perk of digital media.

And for the record, I'm not against digital media. There are a ton of benefits. I think there just needs to be better communication of the expectations between producer and consumers. Reading this thread and seeing that California requires the use of "License" instead of "Buy" is a good example of emphasising the difference between paying for digital media and physical media.