Gnutella

Gnutella (pronounced ) is a file sharing network used primarily to exchange music, films and software. It is a true peer-to-peer network; it operates without a central server. Files are exchanged directly between users.

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Gnutella client programs connect to the network and share files. Search queries are passed from one node to another in round-robin fashion. Gnutella clients are available for a number of platforms.

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According to the file sharing website Slyck.com, Gnutella is the fourth most popular file sharing network in the Internet, following eDonkey 2000, BitTorrent, and FastTrack. While figures vary from hour to hour and day to day, Gnutella is thought to host on average approximately 1.8 million users, although around 400,000-500,000 at one time.

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File sharing: File sharing is the practice of making files available to other users for download over the Internet and smaller networks. Usually file sharing follows the peer-to-peer (P2P) model, where the files are stored on and served by personal computers of the users. Most people who engage in file sharing ar...

Peer-to-peer: P2P redirects here. For the telecommunications term PTP, see Point-to-Point.P2P can also stand for Pay-to-play in gaming....

Client: The term client may have the following meanings....