ZDNet Music's Aaron Pava finds that Gnutella is not as scalable as the Napster network. Translation: The more users, the less efficient.

With Napster hogging the file-sharing spotlight even as the clock ticks down on its legal status, Gnutella developers are rattling the cage with new releases and the promise of a major upgrade.

The Gnutella file-sharing system is growing faster than was believed technically possible, thanks to work by programmers, suggesting the software may become a permanent part of the Internet ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Gnutella - named after the free software licence 'Gnu' and Mr Frankel's favourite chocolate spread 'Nutella' - subsequently spread like the substance it was named after.

Gene Kan, one of the pioneering developers of the file-sharing technology Gnutella, which took music-swapping beyond the realm of Napster, died June 29 at age 25 as a result of an accident, his ...

Anti-virus experts earlier this week discovered a PC-infecting worm travelling through Gnutella, a system which allows Internet users to share songs and full-length movies and which has rapidly ...