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Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer
Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network. Frankel, whose previous claim to fame was programming the then hugely-popular
Winamp MP3 player software, supposedly named the client after his favorite hazelnut cream spread, and
the first version published online was really more of a proof of concept than anything else.
Still, Gnutella hit a nerve.
Napster had been sued three mo...
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