Source: TheRegister
If the Recording Industry Association of America's contributory copyright violation case goes against Napster, the MP3 sharing software company would be in real trouble when damages are assessed. |
According to Net market researcher Webnoize, in September alone, there were 1.39 billion downloads made via Napster.
Webnoize says it used packet sniffing software to track songs shared using Napster's 114 servers over an "extended period of days... including weekdays and weekends". In other words, it didn't monitor the service day in, day out, but averaged the usage stats out over the whole month.
The total number of downloads comes from the total number of Napster users and the number of files available, so Webnoize didn't uncover the 1.39 billion downloads statistic directly. Even so, with an average of 640,000 Napster users online at any given time, a significant number of songs will have been downloaded.
And still record sales went up... Go Napster go !
