I take your points, but I was responding to someone who basically said if you can't resell copies for profit, you don't own it. I was describing the difference between owning a CD/Legit MP3 download vs subscribing to a streaming service.
You cannot re-sale it or re-distribute it, because what's inside the CD, file, vinyl, tape, etc. is not yours. Why? Because music is an abstract form of expression that takes advantage of air vibrations to exist for a finite lapse of time. CDs, vinyls, tapes, digital files, etc. are just like glass jars that when you take the lid off let you reproduce the vibrations of air that make you listen to music. "But I own the jar to listen to that same air vibration for as long as I want!" Keep reading... There's one person that pours the air with the vibrations for music to thousands of jars, and he puts a label with small prints on each jar that says "What's inside the jar is not yours, I'm just using the jar to
lend you the air vibrations that reproduce the music each time you take the lid off. You can keep the jar with you forever if it doesn't break or gets stolen, but you cannot use other jars to pour the air vibrations inside them because the only one that can do that is me, the air vibration owner, and I paid big bucks explicitly to have that right. Also, you cannot pour the air vibrations for music to your friends' jars. I can complain to an authority so you'll receive punishments if you break these rules." Each jar costs 10 bucks for you to basically keep it at home (not own its content.) You "buy" them when you want them, but contain only what the label says it contains. You need racks to store them at home and take up space.
Streaming is a kinda new, really small, unbreakable jar that contains millions of air vibrations that you can choose to listen to anytime, anywhere, and it's content label changes to help you decide what you might want to listen to and shows you it contains air vibrations you didn't know they even existed. You can even choose one, or two or three jars that do this same thing (based on your enjoyment of their shape.) They don't take up space on a rack. You pay the cost of a "regular" glass jar to a guy each month for this unbreakable jar. The label also says that air vibrations are not yours, but you can listen to them as long as you keep paying the monthly fee, like you do with heating, electricity and cable bills.
In my opinion, streaming has way more pros than cons, and physical medium retention per se is a moot point (as in "irrelevant".)