Gnutella protocol . This application can act as either a client (a consumer of information ) or a server (a supplier of information , as well as a high-level network , connecting and routing information between clients and servers . Each instance of an application is called a peer (Adar , Huberman 2003 ) The word peer will be used interchangeably with host in the following discussion . Gnutella boasts a number of features that make it attractive to certain users . For example , Gnutella provides for anonymity by...











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