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Gnutella pioneer Gene Kan dies
News Kan, 25, rose to prominence online as one of the most articulate spokesmen for the Gnutella file-swapping community at the height of the Internet's love affair with peer-to-peer software. Shortly after the release of Gnutella by America Online...
[July 9, 2002, 8:28]
Gnutella spreading itself thin
News Predictions that Gnutella would quickly offer an effective file-swapping alternative to Napster, have proven premature, with the technology's own developers admitting more work is needed before it will take off as a way to trade free music and...
[January 29, 2001, 15:50]
Gnutella creator may quit AOL
News Gnutella author Justin Frankel is considering quitting Nullsoft, the company he founded and sold to America Online, following repeated clashes with his corporate parent over software projects. Key products developed by Frankel's group include the...
[June 4, 2003, 7:42]
Gnutella worm finds new way to squirm into PCs
News A so-called proof-of-concept worm started spreading over the weekend among the PCs of people using the peer-to-peer file-swapping protocol known as Gnutella. Although its name changes, people who use the Gnutella network can easily spot the worm by...
[February 27, 2001, 10:22]
Gnutella rides the Net
News Open source MP3 application Gnutella, has begun springing up all over the Internet, confounding the efforts of AOL Time Warner to make the software disappear. Gnutella is a Napster-inspired MP3 application produced by the developers that created...
[March 21, 2000, 11:04]
Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News Gnutella: An open-source peer-to-peer communications protocol. LimeWire, BearShare and others use Gnutella. Distributed as an open-source technology -- software that can be freely modified by independent programmers -- Gnutella has since inspired...
[February 28, 2002, 9:34]
A Year Ago: Will Gnutella ignite porn and piracy?
News Gnutella, the company said, was an unauthorized project, created by programmers -- led by Winamp creator Justin Frankel -- who came to AOL when the company acquired Nullsoft in June of last year. Perfect anonymity is a key strength of Gnutella over...
[April 13, 2001, 6:04]
Movie industry targets Gnutella users
News The movie industry is training its legal guns on the Gnutella file-sharing system in its latest efforts to combat piracy. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA ) has sent hundreds of letters to major Internet service providers and...
[April 18, 2001, 7:48]
Gnutella swapping cookies, too
News Because of the way Gnutella searches work, it's impossible to tell exactly how many people are affected, however. One of several file-swapping networks riding the coattails of Napster's success, Gnutella allows people to open the contents of their...
[February 9, 2001, 8:42]
VBS worm targets Gnutella users
News An unknown author has created a worm aimed at infecting Gnutella users. The worm contains a simpler name, Gnutella Worm v1.1. Gnutella is a free, distributed network for exchanging files, similar -- but technically different -- to Napster.
[June 5, 2000, 8:49]
Will Gnutella ignite porn and piracy?
News You can see what people are searching for," said Ian Hall-Beyer, founder of the definitive Gnutella Web site, wego.gnutella.com. When you send a query to the Gnutella Net, there is not much in it that can link that query to you," brags Moinvaziri...
[April 13, 2000, 13:38]
N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella)
Downloads Network Auralization for Gnutella) is interactive software art which turns the process of searching for and downloading MP3 files into a chaotic musical collage. Type in one or more search keywords, and N.A.G.looks for matches on the Gnutella peer...
[July 24, 2003, 0:34]
MP3Board sues AOL-Time Warner over Gnutella
News MP3Board.com filed a complaint Monday against AOL-Time Warner for responsibility of the file-swapping system Gnutella that was originally developed by AOL's Nullsoft division. The lawsuit that was filed in the US District Court for the Southern...
[August 24, 2000, 9:21]
Napster's loss could be Gnutella's gain
News Mulligan also warns that Napster copycat services such as Gnutella could be about to gain five million ex-Napster users if the pending court case results in shutting the service down. Napster will lose half of its European fanbase if it moves to a...
[March 2, 2001, 11:28]
Napster, Gnutella... and Josef Stalin?
News During a single 30 minute speech Monday, the man in charge of the "vision" for Time Warner and AOL's marriage compared Napster, Gnutella and the rest of the file-swapping community to Satan, Cold War communists and airplane hijackers.
[July 25, 2000, 9:22]
A Year Ago: New program mimics Napster
News Preliminary version of "Gnutella" allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated ones Gnutella is likely to be one of several next-generation versions of Napster. The team, which was also responsible for one of the most popular MP3...
[March 15, 2001, 6:01]
NeoNapster
Downloads With NeoNapster you can download all MP3s, games, software, movies, pictures, and more ultra-fast from the Gnutella network! Connect to the Gnutella network and get access to billions of files from millions of other users around the world.
[August 20, 2005, 8:00]
FrostWire
Downloads FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client. Share any type of file on Gnutella and the Bittorrent network. The purpose of FrostWire is to keep and maintain the freedoms that LimeWire LLC may be forced to withdraw.
[November 8, 2009, 6:06]
Hackers making Napster 'irrelevant'
News Already, a group of hackers and programmers have created a utility known as Gnutella that -- while harder to use than Napster -- distributes the information regarding what songs are on whose computers within the entire network.
[July 17, 2000, 8:32]
The Case for a Hybrid P2P Search Infrastructure
White Papers Popular P2P file sharing systems like Gnutella and Kazaa use unstructured network designs. Through extensive measurements of the Gnutella network from multiple vantage points, the paper argues for a hybrid search solution, where structured search...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
