Traffic is surging on Napster as users develop ways to circumvent systems which are designed to prevent the unauthorized distribution of music.

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Webnoize claims a 25 percent increase in downloads via Napster during the last week of March. There were 593 million downloads on the file-sharing system, claims Webnoize.

This resurgence is likely to be the result of Napster users' actions, such as regularly renaming files and using alternative song titles in their shared directory.

The RIAA claims Napster is not complying with the March 5 injunction against it to filter out material identified by copyright holders as being shared without authorization.

Napster claims it has blocked more than 275,000 songs from being shared, but that the information needed to filter out the songs was not properly provided by the RIAA.

 

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