What's the difference then?
OK, a car is different perhaps. It got wheels etc. Point taken.
Say you buy a CD of your favorite band now. It's data on a disc. Someone put money into it to put it on the disc and give it to you and you pay them for that. Contract fulfilled, job done. You're responsible now for what you do with it.
Same deal with digital distribution. They put money into it by supplying a download link and traffic, you download it, the data lands on your disc (which is your HDD, SDD or whatever). You're responsible for what you do with it.
Same deal. Everything else is bonus. If the supplier can afford lifetime redownload, that's cool (and
you are
paying for that, even if you don't need it or notice it). I really don't see why the customer now thinks he's the right to demand it, just because it's now digital only. That would only make it unfair for the person who bought the DVD and there would be no reason why that person shouldn't get a second DVD aswell.
@Dano: Did not know that, thanks...
. There's stuff you can only buy on the German Amazon though, that's the point i was trying to make (or more correctly, that even big German shops don't always have English TOS).
But OK, let's leave it to rest. Looks like this matter has been solved anyhow, so everyone is happy and people can find something else to complain about.