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WinMX

Index WinMX

WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored by Frontcode Technologies that runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, created in 2000. [1]

29 relations: Adware, Archive file, ASCII, Audio file format, Bandwidth (signal processing), BitTorrent, Cease and desist, Chat room, Communication protocol, Domain Name System, EDonkey network, File sharing, Freeware, Gnutella, Hash function, Image file formats, Microsoft Windows, OpenNap, Patch (computing), Peer-to-peer, Perfect Dark (P2P), Proprietary software, Recording Industry Association of America, Share (P2P), Slyck.com, Spyware, Tixati, Video file format, Winny.

Adware

Adware, or advertising-supported software, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.

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Archive file

An archive file is a file that is composed of one or more computer files along with metadata........

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ASCII

ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

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Audio file format

An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system.

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Bandwidth (signal processing)

Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.

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BitTorrent

BitTorrent (abbreviated to BT) is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) which is used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet.

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Cease and desist

A cease and desist letter is a document sent to an individual or business to stop purportedly illegal activity ("cease") and not to restart it ("desist").

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Chat room

The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.

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Communication protocol

In telecommunication, a communication protocol is a system of rules that allow two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any kind of variation of a physical quantity.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.

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EDonkey network

The eDonkey Network (also known as the eDonkey2000 network or eD2k) is a decentralized, mostly server-based, peer-to-peer file sharing network created in 2000 by US developers Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan that is best suited to share big files among users, and to provide long term availability of files.

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File sharing

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.

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Freeware

Freeware is software that is available for use at no monetary cost.

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Gnutella

Gnutella (possibly by analogy with the GNU Project) is a large peer-to-peer network.

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Hash function

A hash function is any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to data of a fixed size.

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Image file formats

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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OpenNap

OpenNap is a peer-to-peer service server software.

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Patch (computing)

A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Perfect Dark (P2P)

is a peer-to-peer file-sharing (P2P) application from Japan designed for use with Microsoft Windows.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Share (P2P)

is the name for a closed-source P2P application being developed in Japan by an anonymous author.

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Slyck.com

Slyck.com is a website that was once dedicated to all things pertaining to file sharing news.

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Spyware

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization sometimes without their knowledge, that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, that asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge, or it may send such information to another entity with the consumer's consent, through cookies.

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Tixati

Tixati is a proprietary Linux and Windows BitTorrent client written in C++ designed to be light on system resources.

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Video file format

A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system.

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Winny

Winny (also known as WinNY) is a Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program which claims to be loosely inspired by the design principles behind the Freenet network, which makes user identities untraceable.

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Frontcode Technologies, MXPie, WPNP, WinMXGroup, Winmx.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinMX

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