@eneas
I can really understand that you are upset that the editor changed the policy after you subscriped and to be totally honest I would feel the same way as you do as I had the digital subscription as well and used to save it to my computer as PDF file to archive it - at the turn of the year I switched to the subscription for the printed edition as it annoyed me to read it on my pc and I can tell you it's a really nice magazine quality-wise.
On the other hand I can understand the editor as well as he puts his own work into the magazine and if I were him I surely didn't want to see my work getting spread around the net for free. People don't realize that copying/downloading copyrighted online content is the same as stealing in the "real world". A lot of people wouldn't steal but are quick to save copyrighted online content to their pc. People asked me how does the editor make sure that nobody forwards the magazine to a friend or upload it to a sharing platform. I always said he can't he just has to trust people that they just don't do it. I had somebody sent me some download links to the magazine myself and a friend of mine asked me to forward him the mag but I denied. I told him it's only some $40 a year which means some $3,x a month. C'mon!

So when I do a wheighing of your interests and the editor's I have to aggree with the editor's interest to save his work against piracy, which is the reason for SDJ's new policy. Also Jack said "No way I would send someone a PDF file of my book, for example." And to the ones who complained that they used to print their own mag, they are still able to do that as SDJ2010 posted above. I think one can't ask for more. I also really liked the PDF files but when it doesn't work it just doesn't.