Interesting: Gnutella has no central location. It's modeled after the way the Internet itself is connected: One person starts the software, connecting directly to another person who is running the service, who is connected to a third, and so on, with as many individual links as there are people running the software. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1676249.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1581232.html Jeff