The highest proportion of female users is in the US, where men make up 66.7 percent of Napster's home-based visitors. NetValue also said that Napster visitors tend to be heavy Internet users in general, spending more time online, on average, than those who don't visit Napster. Last week, Napster came within hours of being effectively shut down by a preliminary injunction issued by a US District Court judge. However, the company received a reprieve in lawsuit launched by the RIAA and the record labels it represents when the US Court of Appeals agreed to stay the injunction Friday afternoon. NetValue obtains its numbers by monitoring a panel of home Internet users in each country.
Software running on panelists' computers automatically logs their online activities.
Weekly telephone surveys collect additional data that is used, in part, to benchmark the composition of the panels against the Internet population as a whole.