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WinMX is a peer-to-peer file sharing software for Microsoft
Windows that was developed by the company Frontcode Technologies.
History
WinMX had been considered since the heyday of Napster. The
first version was simply a client for OpenNap server, it was
on 8 Published in October 2000. When the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA shortly) in March and April 2001
against the increasingly OpenNap networks was happening and
the few remaining servers were overloaded, WinMX, the programmers
developed a separate, decentralized network called WinMX Peer
Networking Protocol (short WPNP) that with the release of
version 2.5 WinMX on 2 Started in May 2001. To date WinMX
supports both protocols.
In 2002, the number of simultaneous users on WinMX estimated
1.5 million, making it the second largest behind KaZaA file-sharing
network was.
Following the release of version 3.31 on 19 October 2002
appealed the developers a long break until mid-June 2004 to
the version 3.52 and in early July 2004, the published version
of 3:53, which introduced several updates to their own WPNP
network. Frontcode Technologies even entertained some peer
cache servers to support the caching of IP addresses of many
users, the WPNP WinMX network.
WinMX offers several features not that one would like, and
never have been integrated by the manufacturer. These features
can, however, by the unofficial patches and add-ons upgrade.
WinMX was very popular because of its 2-byte character support
even in Japan. WinMX was still in 2001, the P2P application
in Japan, so let's popularity after a few arrests of WinMX
users to strongly and ended in the development of a serverless,
part-encrypted application called Winny.
In September 2005, according to media reports received make
WinMX received cease-and-desist letter - which according to
a warning - from the RIAA which is appealing to the ruling
of the U.S. Supreme Court against the operators of the P2P
program Grokster in June 2005. On 21 September 2005 took Frontcode
frontcode.com and winmx.com the websites from the net and
snapped off a central server farm. And in early October 2005,
the registered domain winmx.com on the island nation of Vanuatu.
Some WinMX fans, however, developed patches that the continued
operation of WinMX's own network as well as enable WPNP OpenNap
on alternative servers. Although the restart through community-internal
rivalries between the main actors Winmxworld and Vladd44 was
hampered and tries the music industry by fake files and search
results (Fake flooding) to sabotage the system, there is still
an active user community, whose members will especially appreciate
the communication possibilities that WinMX offers compared
to newer, more modern file-sharing systems. In November 2006
there were about 2,000 chat rooms. |
