I think the reason we haven't heard many complaints about the doing away of physical media is exactly this. As long as power users can make their own offline media, there's nothing to complain about.

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[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29841933#p29841933:kvrcoc6g said: r3loaded[/url]":kvrcoc6g]Wow, so there's an entire GUI app that's been written to ...