NEW YORK (WIRED) - Months after shutting down its file-trading service, Napster has finally been displaced by four new applications that allow users to trade music, movies and software, a new study concludes. Four new file-sharing systems -- FastTrack, Audiogalaxy, iMesh and Gnutella -- were used to download 3.05 billion files during August, according to research firm Webnoize. That's more copyrighted material than was ever shared using Napster. At the beginning of this year when it was at the height of its popularity, Napster users traded nearly 3 billion files. That's bad news for the major record labels hoping to stop the trading of digital music.
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