ha! well, i guess i'll scratch that idea. of course it could be done (illegally and after a painstaking backwards engineering effort), but i see your point. ultimately what i was hoping to see is the ability for a linux app to take advantage of all the mp3s that those windows users are sharing on that kazaa network. it blew my mind how many results were returned for something like "sonic youth live". i'm assuming the reason is more users, or maybe their network strategy could be something gnutella can learn from. i'm talking out of my ****, and i'm new here and don't want to rant, i just thought it would be an interesting study for our (gnutella users and developers) benefit.

i still have much to learn as far as what's good for this network and what's not.