easy · LSAT Reading Comprehension
(Paragraph 1) Digital streaming has fundamentally altered the music industry, making vast libraries of songs accessible for a low monthly fee. (Paragraph 2) Consider the case of independent artists in the early 2000s, who relied on physical CD sales for the majority of their income. Today, those same artists often earn less than a penny per stream, forcing them to rely on live performances and merchandise to sustain their careers.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the primary purpose of the second paragraph?
- It supplies a concrete case that makes vivid the industry-wide shift described in the first paragraph.
- It lays out the precise technical formula streaming services apply to compute an artist's royalties.
- It urges independent musicians to abandon streaming platforms entirely and return to selling CDs.
- It traces the music industry's complete commercial history, from its earliest origins to now.
- It concedes a genuine weakness in the first paragraph's claim that streaming has transformed music.
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