BS - (resolved)

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Matt255

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.

A CD is different. Each one costs money. By contrast, once you have one digital copy you can distribute it to your customers for free. Bandwidth is cheap, and if you're paying for a bandwidth limited webhost, you should switch. I already mentioned that unlimited plans are dirt cheap.

So where's the cost again?

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.

With a disc, you can install it from the disc unlimited times. That's the whole point of having a disc. When they don't give you a disc, you need a new way to re-install.