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>decentralized Peer to Peer information exchanging network So a new form of torrenting? Tor browser? I don't get it. What do people use it for?
by Gravyness 5y ago
>decentralized Peer to Peer information exchanging network
So a new form of torrenting? Tor browser? I don't get it. What do people use it for?
- detaro 5y ago> So a new form of torrenting? Wrong way around, Gnutella protocol is slightly older than Bittorrent.
- paranoidrobot 5y agoA basic, poor summary: Gnutella[1] was a peer-to-peer protocol that came out of Nullsoft (the Winamp guys) in response to RIAA takedowns of Napster. It significantly predated Bittorrent. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella