Word: gnutella
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Perhaps. But peer-to-peer file sharing, it's now clear, is here to stay. Even if Napster is driven out of business, there are new, even more intractable sharing systems--notably Gnutella and Freenet--that allow files to be traded directly from PC to PC, without going through a single website like Napster's. These renegade services would be harder to shut down because they have no centralized plugs to pull, no company officers to sue. Former Public Enemy rapper Chuck D got it right: trying to stop file sharing over the Internet, he says, "is like trying...
...request for a particular file percolates through the Gnutella network. When it reaches a computer that has the file, Gnutella connects the two computers directly, and the file is downloaded...
Napster and Gnutella let users swap data from one PC--or "peer"--to another, without going through a central server. Here's how they work...
...GNUTELLA...
...Gnutella is downloaded and installed on a personal computer...