imperialscum said:

I hate to be Ric again but even if you download the digital content on your hard disk, you get a physical copy. The information is stored physically on your disk.

To pedantry… and beyond!

I mean, seriously… we know that (if it wasn't true, the hard disk wouldn't work, it's not supernatural). We're using common parlance, where “physical media” refers to films, tapes and discs, whilst “digital media” refers to files. You will find this phraseology fairly consistent across the internet.