P2P using Gnutella

[Sharon L]

How much legal is it to use your create your own P2P Application. Make it connect to the Gnutella Network. And, then feature ads, and make money out of it?

[♥Allie misses him♥]

easy, find a cool name + announce it here + get beta testers
it's told to join the GDF is a good idea, well your decision.
communication with other developers is helpfull.

[ErikaG]

I'm not a lawyer but I would say it is totally legal.
No one said that P2P software is meant to share copyrighted materials. Its like a knife: You can kill someone with it or cut your vegetables with it.

If you publish it under the GPL you dont take any responsibility for damage caused by your program.

[Anth12]

You make it sound so easy Anyway, I was asking how I can be listed on Gnutella.com or Gnutelliums.com, as an official client? Didn't find a single e-mail address there!

[Softball Luva!]

I am curious about Gnutella Networks. They will spend hundred thousands of dollars on maintaining their servers, while their clients connect to their networks free of cost, and make money. I mean, how can one be a Gnutella client. It can't be free, for sure. They (Gnutella) will want something in exchange.

[Wilko]

Don't you need a license or anything?

Who pays, and maintains the Gnutella servers? And how do they recover the amount spent?

[Stephanie C]

I see you are a victim of capitalism.
Gnutella is free, no one owns it. We own it!
Gnutella is opensource, if you have read the specifications
you can start coding your own client.

No one owns it.
If you want to know more about Gnutella P2P
check out my article:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=7565&lngWId=4

[Kousik]

Cookies are handy in advertising. However, they do not extract any personal identifiable information, but only info. (Like, which ads have been shown, for how long etc.) to enhance the user experience.

My Question is: Are Cookies considered as Spyware?

[juicyfruit]

If you write GPL software you are most likely broke, don't own anything and therefore don't have to worry about law suits for damage anyway.
GPL doesn't protect you from law suits. If you make $$ from your program you are a bigger target because you have something to go after.There are no central servers! Everyone on the network gives a little bandwidth, and gets a little bandwith, so it evens out mostly.
It's file "sharing" at its best.
There are a few greedy people who try to profit off of the "free" bandwidth, they write P2P programs and display ads on people's screens while they "share" files. Bad karma will catch up with them.

[raya]

Or maybe they're trying to profit off writing the P2P programs.. not such a bad idea really.