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File sharing is a method of distributing electronically stored information such as computer programs and digital media. This article contains a list and comparison of file sharing applications; most of them make use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies. This comparison also contains download managers that
In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source Gnutella client Gnucleus. The word Gnutella today refers not to any one project or piece of software, but to the open protocol used by the various clients.
Shareaza is a peer-to-peer file sharing client running under Microsoft Windows which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2 (G2), eDonkey, BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP and HTTPS [citation needed] network protocols and handles magnet links, [5] ed2k links, and the now deprecated gnutella and Piolet links. [6]
Infer, a static analyzer created at Facebook for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C, used to detect bugs in iOS and Android apps. [28] Liquidsoap, a scripting language for generating multimedia streams. MirageOS, a unikernel programming framework written in pure OCaml. MLdonkey, a peer-to-peer file sharing application based on the EDonkey network.
Until its decline in 2004, Kazaa was the most popular file-sharing program despite bundled malware and legal battles in the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States. In 2002, a Tokyo district court ruling shut down File Rogue, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit that effectively shut down Audiogalaxy.
This makes it possible for multiple users on multiple machines to share files and storage resources. Distributed file systems differ in their performance, mutability of content, handling of concurrent writes, handling of permanent or temporary loss of nodes or storage, and their policy of storing content.
Winny (also known as WinNY) is a Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program developed by Isamu Kaneko, a research assistant at the University of Tokyo in 2002. Like Freenet, a user must add an encrypted node list in order to connect to other nodes on the network.
The eDonkey Network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network created in 2000 by US developers Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan [1] [2] [3] that is best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of files. Like most sharing networks, it ...