imperialscum said:

timdiggerm said:

I have encoded the film as a radio wave which will eventually be received by a deep space probe and sent back so we can watch it. In between transmission and reception by the probe, I have destroyed all copies of the film.

Radio waves, happily, are not made of matter.

Finally a worthy post!

Hmm now there is a question of how broadly you use the adjective "physical". If you use "physical" on the highest level, i.e. an adjective pertaining to physics, then the copy would still be a physical copy since electromagnetic radiation is part of physics.

Good thing everyone uses words to mean things other than their purest, dictionary defined definitions! Physical Media means exactly what everyone else in this thread said it does; this argument, while amusing, is absurd.