Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?

Do people know CDs get scratched, stat to skip and go bad? I would say at this point essentially everyone knows that. Do people know hard drives go bad? Probably most at this point know that drives fail.While I'm not challenging the notion that it would be great to be able to copy your CD and put the content in the cloud, the reality is that we own nothing digit any more no matter how it is delivered to us. The notion that we should have a copy in the cloud is exactly what Sony is offering.Given the practical reality, I would much rather have a CD of my game that rely on Sony but like music, that is fading into quaint obscurity. The part of the situation that really irks me is with the CD there is no secondary market and when i buy a 5 year old game from Sony they charge me 60 bucks as if it was a new release.