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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
GNUtella: Decentralising the Masses
verfasst von : James Allen-Robertson
Erschienen in: Digital Culture Industry
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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It was 1999 and Justin Frankel was working in his cubicle at AOL when he came across Napster. As a programmer and music lover Frankel appreciated the ingenuity of the code but took issue with the profit motive that drove Napster Inc. Frankel approved of file-sharing as a way of empowering people via the free flow of information, but disagreed with someone making a profit from it. To Frankel, if you created a network like Napster, it shouldn’t be about controlling the network, but doing everything possible to stop its control: that was good karma. Of course, the Napster that controlled the network also allowed it to form, it facilitated all of this sharing, but Frankel also saw that this centralisation made it vulnerable to control and disintegration. If a truly open and free file-sharing network were to succeed, it would have to operate differently; to Frankel it was an interesting problem.