Yo, I see you've been on quite a long trip away. I managed to finally finish Space Dandy! While IDK if I'd say it's my favorite of Watanabe's anime catalogue, those last episodes were nothing short of breathtaking!
You can buy drm free games / music / ebooks, and if you keep backups of your data (like documents and family photos etc), then you shouldn't lose the game. but with a disk, your toddler could put it in the toaster and there goes your $60