a more gnutellish napster, overseas
Al Qaeda
alqaeda at fbi.gov
Mon Jul 16 22:56:36 PDT 2001
from
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/16/fast.track.downloads.idg/index.html
When you log on to the FastTrack network, you are
routed by a FastTrack
server to what are called SuperNodes that contain
lists of user files you can
search, connect to, and download. Members
automatically host
SuperNodes on their PCs when needed -- and the number
of SuperNodes
grows and shrinks relative to demand. SuperNode
computers are clustered
by the thousands, so one search for a file may be
handled by a hundred PC
SuperNodes that intelligently rout and distribute
requests, according to
FastTrack chief executive Niklas Zennstrom.
Zennstrom says the number of users on its network has
been doubling each
month, from 200,000 in June to 440,000 today, even
higher than
Webnoize's estimates. According to FastTrack, one
million files were
downloaded from its network last week. It reports 3.5
million copies of its
software have been downloaded through its largest
customer, MusicCity.
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