Author: JT Smith
From Red Herring.com: On March 14, an innocuous posting on a popular hackers’ Web site ignited a firestorm of
programmer interest. The posting read: “Nullsoft just released an open-source Napster clone.
It does MP3s, movies, and any other format you could want.” A few months earlier, the new
program, called Gnutella, would have gone largely unnoticed, but the David-and-Goliath battle
taking place between the recording industry and Napster, a company that develops a program
for swapping MP3 files, made the posting hot news.
programmer interest. The posting read: “Nullsoft just released an open-source Napster clone.
It does MP3s, movies, and any other format you could want.” A few months earlier, the new
program, called Gnutella, would have gone largely unnoticed, but the David-and-Goliath battle
taking place between the recording industry and Napster, a company that develops a program
for swapping MP3 files, made the posting hot news.
