Trouble with digital delivery; breaking the old

Justin Kemppainen, Minnesota Games Examiner, writes:

There are some who despise digital delivery of any content, be it music, video games, movies, or anything else. The transitory nature of computers or any storage device makes people leery. If I delete the file, experience catastrophic system failure, decide on a whim to reformat my hard drive, or in some other fashion lose the file, will I be able to download it again?

Well, while those are general concerns that Valve’s Steam content delivery and social network system has done very well with, another irritating problem has arisen that could cast a measure of doubt on it.