WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn (president of Frontcode Technologies) in Windsor, Ontario (Canada).[1][2][3][4] According to one study, it was the number one source for online music in 2005 with an estimated 2.1 million users.[5]Frontcode Technologies itself abandoned development of WinMX in September 2005, but developers brought the service back online within a few days by releasing patches. WinMX continues to be used by a community of enthusiasts.[6]
Kevin Hearn released Tixati in 2009 and Fopnu in 2017. Fopnu is a client and a network with some similarities to WinMX. In 2021, he released DarkMX, a serverless file sharing client with built-in privacy preserving features and a built-in Tor client, as well as the ability to host a .onion file-sharing that is reachable via the Tor Browser.
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networks such as Bittorrent, WinMX, Gnutella (Cabos) and OpenNap (Utatane). Kevin Hearn and Frontcode Technologies release WinMX, one of the first peer-to-peer...
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top of the Billboard charts. December – Peer-to-peer file sharing client WinMX 1.8 beta is released, providing users with another way to connect to Napster...
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implemented as a Windows C++ application. The software takes its name from WinMX, where the M and the X are each advanced one letter in the Latin alphabet...
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subject to similar pressures and its use soon declined. As of 2024, the WinMX client is the only one still in use. The original Napster peer-to-peer file...
chat rooms, e.g. Ares Galaxy, eMule, Filetopia, Retroshare, Vuze, WASTE, WinMX, etc. Many popular social media platforms are now used as chat rooms, such...
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