A glitch this week that locked millions of people out of the most popular file-trading network since Napster's fall is raising new questions about the future of the Net's free-music bonanza. Beginning ...

Predictions that Gnutella would quickly offer an effective file-swapping alternative to Napster have proven premature, with the technology's own developers admitting more work is needed before it will ...

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 no ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Predictions that Gnutella would quickly offer an effective file-swapping alternative to Napster, have proven premature, with the technology's own developers admitting more work is needed before it ...