SAT Inferences Question

The advent of online streaming has led many music listeners to drift away from ownership of music (through downloads or through physical media such as compact discs) and toward the streaming services Bandcamp and Tidal, among others. Datta et al. studied the impact of this change on the variety of music that listeners consume. The researchers reasoned that the ownership model of music assigns a cost per song to acquiring a variety of music, while streaming services typically charge a flat fee for access to an entire music catalog, making variety free, which suggests that ## Which choice most logically completes the text?