Thread: P2P Program?

Originally Posted by O'nus

What's Gnutella?

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-scratches head- I didn't know how to put it in my own words other than "It's effin awesome!" so I found this for you.

The Gnutella network is a fully distributed alternative to such semi-centralized systems as FastTrack (KaZaA) and such centralized systems as Napster. Initial popularity of the network was spurred on by Napster's threatened legal demise in early 2001. This growing surge in popularity revealed the limits of the initial protocol's scalability. In early 2001, variations on the protocol (first implemented in closed-source clients) allowed somewhat of an improvement in scalability. Instead of treating every user as client and server, some users were now treated as "ultrapeers", routing search requests and responses for users connected to them.

This allowed the network to grow in popularity. In late 2001, the Gnutella client LimeWire became open source. In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file-sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the open source Gnutella client Gnucleus.

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For torrents, uTorrent is the lightest and fastest. It's not hard to figure out at all, you can be a beginner and just use it or you can know your stuff and tweak it. I also use Ares, that's a really good one, much better than LimeWire in my opinion.

The best public tracker (cleanest, fastest) is MiniNova.org. The one with the most selection (and most viruses/spyware) is ThePirateBay.org.

Demonoid is gone unfortunately. That was THE best tracker. I suggest you find a good private tracker -- i currently use AradiTracker.com. It's good and VERY fast, but the selection isn't that amazing. It's growing, though.

I'll support the single poster above that mentioned it: I use SoulSeek for music.
If I just want one song instead of an album and such, it's quite useful and a swift solution.