With legal music downloads you can download a track and it is yours to keep. You can copy it onto your devices and listen to it whenever you want. The fees involved vary but there are many cheaper alternatives to iTunes and many services which sell tracks in a range of formats. On the whole music is available more cheaply than in the shops. When it comes to games, services like Steam allow you to purchase your game, download it onto as many machines as you want and play it whenever and wherever you want. The only limitation is that you can’t play it on separate machines at the same time. In effect Steam holds an online library of your games for you. You can delete a game from your hard drive and then reinstall it a year later if you want. Once again, on the whole, prices are cheaper than retail.
