The thing is, not everyone has the same access to the internet. Lots of places, even now, don’t get broadband or even really lousy broadband which has a bandwidth cap on it – 5 gigs a month. (I finally just got broadband last month, depsite being only 30 miles south of downntown St. Louis. And it’s cellular broadband, which sucks a lot of the time)
It’s also not nearly as easy to use the media. You buy or rent a DVD, you can pop it in any DVD player. But how do you watch a movie off the internet? You need a computer for that. And then a way to hook the computer up to the TV. Not everyone has that.
Sure, if you are rich urban city dweller, this is no problem. But look at music – despite the small size of the files and ease of piracy, cd sales completely dominate the charts. Sure, they are down, but downloads are almost neglible as a percentage.
