Sun Aims At Peer-to-peer Search With Acquisition
News The first of these services to emerge is the basic ability to search, a commonplace function on the Web but a more complicated project in the decentralised world of peer-to-peer services. As first reported by CNET News.com, the InfraSearch...
[March 7, 2001, 9:42]
New P2P Tools Mean Quicker Downloads
News The first is to do with decentralised search. This allows searches to be carried out more efficiently than in earlier decentralised systems. Unlike Napster, Kazaa or eDonkey, the tool concentrates on distribution rather than search.
[May 27, 2003, 11:43]
EDonkey Picking Up Pace In Euro P2P Stakes
News The first is to do with decentralised search. This allows searches to be carried out more efficiently than in earlier decentralised systems. With Gnutella, for example, a search query for "Radiohead" or "Madonna," for example, ripples out through...
[October 14, 2003, 18:20]
Filtering Kazaa 'impossible' - Sharman
News Kazaa has a fully decentralised architecture, which allows users to share material directly with each other. When Music Industry Piracy Investigations -- the music industry's anti-piracy unit -- obtained several legal orders last week allowing them...
[February 9, 2004, 7:35]
P2P Firms Claim Filtering 'impossible'
News File-swapping companies have contended that this kind of filter is impossible in a decentralised system such as Gnutella or Kazaa. But in wholly decentralised networks, in which searches radiate out through a constantly shifting array of "nodes...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
Napster Clones Toe Music Industry Line
News To date, no public action from the industry has been taken against the Gnutella file-swapping network, a more decentralised option relying only on individuals' computers, instead of companies running Napster- or iMesh-like servers.
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
Morpheus Gets A New Lease On Life
News Although Friday's court decision is sure to be appealed by the recording industry and movie studios one way or another, it appeared to be a clear defense of the legality of decentralised file-swapping services.
[May 1, 2003, 8:11]
Nuclear Shelter Turns To Email
News We run in many decentralised sites throughout the world. In the physical business, you can come on our Web site, and you can search your database that we manage for you. You come to our Web site, and you can do a search, and you can see what you...
[June 1, 2004, 12:00]
Piracy Blamed For Drop In Music Sales
News For example, Gnutella, a more decentralised creation than Napster that doesn't rely on central servers to coordinate search requests, has many fans and its core technology is also used in several other services.
[April 16, 2002, 16:27]
Will Gnutella Ignite Porn And Piracy?
News The anonymity Gnutella provides may unfortunately promote such behaviour, but the good outweighs the bad, he said: "The whole decentralised aspect of it . It could undermine the influence of every search engine and every Web portal.
[April 13, 2000, 13:38]
A Year Ago: Will Gnutella Ignite Porn And Piracy?
News The anonymity Gnutella provides may unfortunately promote such behaviour, but the good outweighs the bad, he said: "The whole decentralised aspect of it . Perfect anonymity is a key strength of Gnutella over Napster because no government agency can...
[April 13, 2001, 6:04]
Report Praises Search Engines' Privacy Efforts
News Other advocacy groups, and some academics, say competition among states to craft better privacy laws offers "a more decentralised model that fits the evolving nature of the internet. Recent privacy-policy makeovers by the five major internet-search...
[August 9, 2007, 11:57]
P2P To Revolutionise Internet By 2004
News Gartner believes the Web will soon change from today's server-centric model into a "Supranet" -- an even more decentralised structure than today's Internet. I don't think there's any space that will deal with the Internet that will not be affected...
[August 13, 2001, 12:45]
Freenet Keeps File-trading Flame Burning
News Hailed in headlines around the world during its early stages as the next step in file trading after the wholly decentralised Gnutella, its star faded as the development process proved to take far longer than that of its simpler cousins.
[October 28, 2002, 14:18]
Morpheus' Downfall: Bills Weren't Paid
News Each company has contended that the networks are wholly decentralised, and that the companies could not exert any control over computer users' actions. Anyone using Morpheus had also been able to search computers running another piece of software...
[March 6, 2002, 11:37]
