Living Online

January, 2002

Mp3 WrapperEver since a judge ruled against Napster last year, music fans have pretty much given up on it. But they didn't give up on file swapping. According to a recent report by Webnoize, more than 3 billion files were downloaded in August on four Napster replacements. That beats Napster's peak month of February, when 2.8 billion tunes were traded. The four new trading networks--FastTrack (fasttrack.nu), Audiogalaxy (audiogalaxy.com), iMesh (imesh.com) and Gnutella (gnutella.wego.com)--are us...