Internet measurement group Webnoize statistics indicate that Napster users are increasingly successful bypassing filtering efforts. Napster downloads rose to 593 million in the last week of March, up over 25 percent from the previous week. Downloads peaked at 3 billion songs in January then slipped to 2.79 billion in February and 2.49 billion in March.

The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a complaint with the Court that Napster is not complying with the March 5 injunction to block copyrighted files. Napster says it had blocked more than 275,000 songs but that the record industry is not cooperating with the court order by providing the names being used to trade songs.

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