Napster, a precursor Peer-To-Peer

Napster is the first widely known and distributed P2P network in the world.Napster was created in 1998, and its author was the American Shaw Fanning, sometimes even called the father of Peer2Peer.As a forerunner to the artist, the whole network, and its application to the service was very simple. The whole project was geared primarily to exchange music files in MP3 format and only support future versions of other file formats. Servers held any relevant information, including lists of files users, allow them to quickly search, find, and download interesting items. It even added a bit about this already simplicity, which clearly demonstrates the fact that in the first version of Napster application, it was not possible to resume downloading file. This resulted in many errors and paths music files. Despite the popularity of the network is not decreased, on the contrary - continue to grow.The problems started the network with the growing number of victims by artists. The court appeared to exist and new claims dealing with non-copyright. All this led to confusion (after a few losers' processes) in the 2001 closure of the site and across the network. He returned it only two years later, the paid version (which obviously failed a number of members) and operates to this day.Author: slightyboy