Word: gnutella
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...that there really isn't a business, not yet. And if Fanning loses this case, there never will be a business, at least not for this P2P company. By the time the case reaches a final verdict, in six months or a year, some other hotshot P2P site--Gnutella, perhaps, or Freenet--might have become flavor of the month. Napster, for all the storm and fury it has engendered, could be remembered as a peculiar millennial trend--like those little chrome scooters--rather than an epochal event...
Programs like Gnutella allow file-sharing without a central server that houses information about who its users are, making it very difficult to block access to the program...
...easy to do. "If they were to shut it down in America, it would move to Canada or somewhere else," says Boies. "There's a reason they call it the World Wide Web--it's literally worldwide." At the same time, newer, more decentralized file-sharing systems like Gnutella and Freenet, which have no central authority in charge, are emerging. When people use those services to exchange pirated music, it will be hard to find anyone...
...then they'll just go elsewhere. Gnutella, Freenet, Scour Exchange, iMesh and CuteMX are all ready to catch Napster's disappointed fans. One service, Audiofind, responded to news of the imminent shutdown by posting the message "BYE BYE NAPSTER!!" on its web site...
...Just another Gen Y geek pirating music on the Net. Napster--the file-sharing system that lets people download free music--and its close kin Gnutella seem so 10 minutes ago. The recording industry has Napster on the run, with a federal lawsuit pending to shut it down for copyright violations. And now MP3.com another music-sharing service, has settled with two record companies (including Warner Music Group, a unit of this magazine's parent, Time Warner) on terms favorable to the industry (see following story...