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So the issue is about having DRM, not whether it's sold on physical media or not. Digital games don't necessarily need to have DRM either.
How's this for digital rights management: Warner Bros is erasing games from online retailers entirely. Which they cannot do with physical media.
You must have forgotten where you even were.
And if you have the game downloaded, you still have the files. Just as much as you have a disk.
On the other hand, disks stop being produced far sooner than digital games stop being sold/hosted.
If you download the game through a client or other proprietary software then in all likelyhood it does not function without that client. Meaning you don't have the game. You have a fragment of the game.