Piracy is just the excuse. What they're saying is that Amazon will allow a collection of corporations (including Amazon) to decide what you're allowed to do with the hardware they pretended to let you buy.
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If music piracy hadn't essentially died, how would you know?
You can go to several different streaming services right now and listen to the music of your choice. They'll send you the file and you pinky-swear that you aren't saving a local copy. But if you do save a local copy, that will look identical to you not saving one.
So we have several things going on:
1. You can purchase DRM-free mp3s from major vendors;
2. You can stream the music in a notionally non-lasting way, also from major vendors, for free;
3. If you pirate music directly from the major streaming platforms, that doesn't show up in the piracy statistics.
I suggest that points (2) and (3) are more significant than point (1). Point (2) depresses piracy because the benefit of having a copy of your music is lower when you can use someone else's copy for free whenever you want. Point (3) artifactually depresses piracy by not counting it when it happens.
Point (1)... doesn't do much to depress piracy.