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Old September 26th, 2003
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Originally posted by §åtåñîç_§qµírl
the biggest difference between napster and all the modern p2p apps is that the files are not hosted on a central server, which means if a user leaves, he cuts his connections, which means a user getting a file now sees "awaiting sources", or if lucky "waiting in queue"
The files on Napster were not hosted on central servers. As far as that is concerned Napster would behave exactly like Gnutella.
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