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Why Amazon VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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The Music Industry Is Not That Different From What Happened in Video

The default price gets you a worse version of the thing, and you can pay to get closer to the artist intent. The idea that Brian May is sneaking up behind me to play guitar was just like not that compelling. You don't have to upgrade to Amazon music HD to get all the HD quality. It comes as part of the base service now. But this is the going back to the two or three year contract negotiation.

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