| | Salon.com Technology | Gnutella bandwidth bandits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | A new Gnutella client called Xolox had recently come onto the network, and in an effort to give Xolox users faster downloads, its programmers had configured the program to frequently "re-query" the network to check for desired files. |
 | | Gnutella is fully decentralized, and that, people said, rendered it immune to legal action; in late 2000, when Napster's court-imposed shutdown seemed imminent, it was this promise of Gnutella's invincibility that seemed to sustain most file traders. |
 | | But because developers are free to implement their own variations on network standards, this open system can also be seen as the cause of some of Gnutella's performance problems. |
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