I don't care all that much for yet another HDD. What am I supposed to de with the old ones; throw it away in the trash? It is just a waste of resources. And what to think of the resources used to deliver it from Canada to my house?

I am completely fine with a download-only option at the same price as the HDD - option. The USB HDDs nowadays cost near to nothing, and the costs for extra bandwith and maintenance of the service, as John allready pointed out, need to be paid for also.

Technology has advanced in a way that there's really no need anymore to send DVD's or HDD's. Nor does one need a paper manual. A PDF-file is sufficient. And you don't have to spend all those resources...

Recycling is good. Not producing what is not needed is better.

Of-course there are people on dial-in or people without internet acces at all. So you can't completely go on download-only.