Nowadays, there are much more digital content such as e-books or online streaming services than ever before, and numerous people enjoy these resorces on their electonic devices. I believe this trend has greater advantages in view of promotion of borderless cultural communications and data restoration, while some disadvantages include problem of online piracy.
One major drawback of digital contents is that copy of the works can be distributed illegally on the internet without consent of authors. This crime, called online piracy, have become serious issue in these days. The authors are losing their potential profits because of piracy, which is less possible when selling contents in printed paper.
Despite these flaws, digital contents have greater benefit.Firstly, by digitalizing content, much more people can enjoy arts or entertainment regardless of time or location. This enables people all around the world to cross-cultural commnucations in sharing same content at the same time, and can lead to development of arts or entertainment industry. Secondly, digital content can be restored for longer time than paper-based resource like books or magazines, and take less space to keep. Managed appropriately, digital-restored data can be restored forever, and easily searched. Therefore, digitalizing arts or entertainment is beneficial not only for people in present day, but also for future generations to access to these content.
In conclusion, while digital arts and entertainment entails serious flaw of online piracy, I suppose benefit outweighs the disadvantage, since digital content situmilates cultural communications and can be restored for more reasonable way than paper-based one.