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On initial startup, the client software must bootstrap and find at least one other node. To envision how Gnutella originally worked, imagine a large circle of users (called nodes), each of whom has Gnutella client software. The gnutella search and retrieval protocol

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This version had its server dependencies removed and all the PRO features enabled for free. On November 9, 2010, LimeWire was resurrected by a secret team of developers and named LimeWire Pirate Edition.

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The shutdown did not affect, for example, FrostWire, a fork of LimeWire created in 2004 that carries neither the remote-disabling code nor adware. Since LimeWire was free software, nothing had prevented the creation of forks that omitted the disabling code, as long as LimeWire trademarks were not used. As the injunction came into force, users who had installed affected versions (newer than 5.5.10) were cut off from the P2P network. This event was the likely cause of a notable drop in the size of the network, because, while negotiating the injunction, LimeWire staff had inserted remote-disabling code into the software. 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. Gnutella is not associated with the GNU project or GNU's own peer-to-peer network, GNUnet.

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The name is a portmanteau of GNU and Nutella, the brand name of an Italian hazelnut flavored spread: supposedly, Frankel and Pepper ate a lot of Nutella working on the original project, and intended to license their finished program under the GNU General Public License. The word Gnutella today refers not to any one project or piece of software, but to the open protocol used by the various clients. 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 free and open source Gnutella client Gnucleus. In late 2001, the Gnutella client LimeWire Basic became free and open source.

This allowed the network to grow in popularity. 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. In early 2001, variations on the protocol (first implemented in proprietary and closed source clients) allowed an improvement in scalability. This growing surge in popularity revealed the limits of the initial protocol's scalability. The initial popularity of the network was spurred on by Napster's threatened legal demise in early 2001. The Gnutella network is a fully distributed alternative to such semi-centralized systems as FastTrack ( KaZaA) and the original Napster.

This parallel development of different clients by different groups remains the modus operandi of Gnutella development today.Īmong the first independent Gnutella pioneers were Gene Kan and Spencer Kimball, who launched the first portal aimed to assemble the open-source community to work on Gnutella and also developed 'GNUbile', one of the first open-source (GNU-GPL) programs to implement the Gnutella protocol. This did not stop Gnutella after a few days, the protocol had been reverse engineered, and compatible free and open source clones began to appear. The next day, AOL stopped the availability of the program over legal concerns and restrained Nullsoft from doing any further work on the project. The source code was to be released later, under the GNU General Public License (GPL) however, the original developers never got the chance to accomplish this purpose. The event was prematurely announced on Slashdot, and thousands downloaded the program that day. On March 14, the program was made available for download on Nullsoft's servers. 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.

Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.

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