Over the last month, users of the system have noticed a dramatic slowdown in responsiveness, and a number of reports have revealed serious instabilities in the Gnutella network.

Distributed as an open-source technology--software that can be freely modified by independent programmers--Gnutella has since inspired derivatives that offer significant improvements, such as ...

The original incarnation of Gnutella was so terrible that I fully expected Napster to remain the preferred online music exchange system, regardless of whether or not the service remained free. I'm ...

Distributed as an open-source technology--software that can be freely modified by independent programmers--Gnutella has since inspired derivatives that offer significant improvements, such as ...

Using Synthetic Coordinates to Improve Gnutella Network Performance Gnutella is a distributed file sharing protocol. It forms an application-layer overlay which does not take into consideration the ...

Internet file sharing is not just grabbing MP3 files and generating lawsuits; this exciting new technology has many applications. This article will focus on the Gnutella network -- a decentralized ...

A rift between file-swapping companies FastTrack and Morpheus is a boon for Gnutella. It's also good news for users who can't be booted off the open-source system. By Brad King.