CNN posted an interesting story about the recording industry's plummeting sales. In the last decade, sales dropped by over $7 billion. The RIAA laments that free, unauthorized digital copies of songs are to blame. Ah, so the blame game continues. Yet, there's not solid proof that the music industry is indeed losing revenue because of illegal downloading and piracy. Something to think about...
Anyway, what really got me is the graph that accompanies the report. The scale starts at $6 billion and goes up by increments of $3 billion. That's a cut scale that doesn't accurately show the data. Instead, it makes it look as though sales have plunged to near zero. It hasn't! Step up, CNN, and don't be lazy.
