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Peeping into the Darnet:

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Peeping into the Darnet: In the era of 'Great Firewall of unwanted restrictions' and restrictions on freedom of expression the people have always found a wayout to breath some fresh air and express their views. It may be expressing a political, economic or social views on various subjects or may be a idea's. Well everything happens in a good spirit for the betterment of the humanity. History: Justin Frankel, the rockstar of internet at the age of 18 developed WinAmp which went on to become defacto software to listen music on computers. He was paid a whopping $100 million to buy the software from America Online-AOL. Justin created another brilliant software called 'Gnutella'- a software client that lets people trade music online and put it up for the world to use. Unlike traditional networks where everybody connected to a contral node' Gnutella allowed peer-to-peer (P2P) connection directly. This goes something like this, Assume you and I have Gnutella installed