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From CNET News: "Napster's
Internet traffic rose 92 percent last week as a federal judge threatened
to shut down the music-sharing Web site for copyright violations.
The number of people visiting  Napster.com
from their home rose to 849,196 Friday, according to Nielsen/NetRatings,
an online audience-measuring service, when a federal appeals court
postponed the shutdown order. On Tuesday, the day before the shutdown
order, Napster had 443,070 visitors.
"Nielsen/NetRatings
measures Internet visitors at home. The service is owned by
Nielsen Media Research, NetRatings and ACNielsen's eRatings.com"
support.
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It is LOUSY research to release numbers that are more precise
than your methodology can reasonably support.
Since NetRatings is working off of a panel of about
50,000 users, they probably can't even estimate Napster's actual
visitorship to the nearest 10,000 people. A usage estimate of
"about 850,000" people on Friday would be reasonable.
Saying "precisely 849,196" people is ludicrous.
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More tomorrow
in RAIN.
 Read
Part Two of an insightful guest essay on how the record
industry should respond to this new era as heralded by Napster,
by RAIN reader Bob Bellin, here.
(Scroll to the top of the page to read Part One, as posted in RAIN
on Friday.)
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crack team of summer interns has
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-- but it really needs your help to help it get started on
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