Comment Maybe they served their music themselves... (Score 1) 980
Maybe Metallica or whoever run the tests for them actually put out a lot of Metallica MP3 in a regular Napster client(s) and added some unknown home-made stuff. All this on a VERY fat connection and then just counted all the hits... Whereas the unknown music just got one download attempt. Would they do that just to get the figures? (maybe they modified a napsterclient to abort all transfer attempts so they did'nt release their own music. It would make the 1.4 million hit possible on a nice connection)