Webnoize: August Saw Record File-Sharing Activity

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NEW YORK — The recording industry may have managed to stop the swapping of copyrighted music files on Napster earlier this year, but new data show activity on other networks is busier than it ever was on Napster.

More than three billion files were downloaded in August using the FastTrack, Audiogalaxy, iMesh and Gnutella file-sharing systems, according to a report Thursday from Webnoize Inc., an online entertainment research company.

That was more than the 2.8 billion files downloaded using Napster in February, when Napster use peaked, Webnoize said.




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