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You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference. Just like software with a license granting the right to use that software.

Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection, just like Adobe couldn't refuse you to use your boxed copy of Photopshop pre-CC...

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> You don't own media, you just pay for the right to listen/see it. A subtle but important difference

Explain please, in what way do I not own the media I bought?

EDIT: responding to your edit:

> Now of course, technically, Warner can't go after your CD collection

and non-technically, what's the "subtle but important" difference here?

You can’t rebroadcast it for a profit, for example.

You own the physical media but not the data (song) that’s stored on it. That’s literally what copyright is: the right to copy. You don’t buy that right when you buy the CD.

I kind of expected something that's relevant to the comment the GP made about "owning media" in the context of other distribution mechanism going down (ignoring that I indeed have the right to copy discs I own, for limited purposes), not a "did you know that owning music media means what everyone understands owning music media to mean".

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