interesting statistic:
Napster usage quadruples despite legal uncertainty
September 11, 2000 Web posted at: 4:30 PM EDT (2030 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite the uncertain legality of the Napster online music-sharing service, the number of people using it more than quadrupled in just five months, Media Metrix said Monday.
That made Napster the fastest-growing software application ever recorded by the Internet research company.
>From 1.1 million home users in the United States in February, the
first month Media Metrix tracked the application, Napster use rocketed
to 4.9 million users in July.
That represents 6 percent of U.S. home PC users who have modems, said Media Metrix, which pays people to install monitoring software on their computers.
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/11/napster.traffic.ap/index.html
les schaffer