Don't Tell the RIAA...: Don't tell the RIAA, but during Q1 2004: "Album sales were up 9.2 percent. Sales of CDs, which represent 96 percent of album sales, rose 10.6 percent. For the first time since 2000, two recording artists -- Norah Jones and Usher -- managed to sell more than 1 million copies of their albums in a single week." For their part, the RIAA claims that online file-sharing is still harming the record industry and is depressing legal music sales.

The RIAA, I'm sure, would deny that these statistics undercut the reasonableness of its new tactic of music downloaders, not just high-traffic providers.

[via Wired News]