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Closed Gnutella System to Prevent Bandwidth Hogs

Posted by timothy on from the knock-knock dept.

prostoalex writes: "Salon.com is running a story on Gnutella developers contemplating the creation of a closed or authorization-only system to prevent bandwidth hogging. Turns out, numerous applications, including Xolox and QTraxMax employ quering algorithms that are capable of bringing the network traffic to a halt. While it gets better download speeds for the users of the aforementioned applications, the damage to network traffic as a whole is substantial."

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  1. Pay? Forced client? by roly · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Will gnutella go pay and will you be forced to use one client?

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