In late 2007, it was the most popular file-sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40%. == History == The first client (also called Gnutella) from which the network got its name was developed by Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft in early 2000, soon after the company's acquisition by AOL.
The initial popularity of the network was spurred on by Napster's threatened legal demise in early 2001.
In early 2001, variations on the protocol (first implemented in proprietary and closed source clients) allowed an improvement in scalability.
In late 2001, the Gnutella client LimeWire Basic became free and open source.
This was proposed in 2001 by Limewire developers.
Additionally, the more frequent search retries of the Shareaza client, one of the initial G2 clients, could unnecessarily burden the Gnutella network. Both protocols have undergone significant changes since the fork in 2002.
However, Gnutella replaced query flooding with more efficient search methods, starting with Query Routing in 2002.
The shutdown did not affect, for example, FrostWire, a fork of LimeWire created in 2004 that carries neither the remote-disabling code nor adware. On November 9, 2010, LimeWire was resurrected by a secret team of developers and named LimeWire Pirate Edition.
It celebrated two decades of existence on March 14, 2020, and has a user base in the millions for peer-to-peer file sharing. In June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computers increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006.
It celebrated two decades of existence on March 14, 2020, and has a user base in the millions for peer-to-peer file sharing. In June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computers increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006.
In late 2007, it was the most popular file-sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40%. == History == The first client (also called Gnutella) from which the network got its name was developed by Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft in early 2000, soon after the company's acquisition by AOL.
Gnutella is not associated with the GNU project or GNU's own peer-to-peer network, GNUnet. On October 26, 2010, the popular Gnutella client LimeWire was ordered shut down by Judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York when she signed a Consent Decree to which recording industry plaintiffs and LimeWire had agreed.
The shutdown did not affect, for example, FrostWire, a fork of LimeWire created in 2004 that carries neither the remote-disabling code nor adware. On November 9, 2010, LimeWire was resurrected by a secret team of developers and named LimeWire Pirate Edition.
It celebrated two decades of existence on March 14, 2020, and has a user base in the millions for peer-to-peer file sharing. In June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computers increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006.
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