If you want to read up on p2p, I'd suggest looking at Gnutella for Users - Gnufu

There you can find info how Gnutella works in a style which is easy to understand without having to dig RFCs first.

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so being i dont have a floppy, nor a burner, havng defragged the computer ten times and deleted the unwanted files not much else i can do but get a cleaner program i guess and look (read what im downloading) before i leap (download many files hitting shiftkey). i remember back in the old days kazaa didnt have all this crap online

Getting a decent cleaner program is not a bad idea. Also being careful what you download. Using Bitzi, also preview your files as downloading to be sure they are what you were wanting. Movie download issues (click on blue link) & also How to find music in which the same principles apply to videos.

In the latter days of Kazaa it did. It was spammed with junk in an attempt to prevent people sharing copyright files in the same way other networks such as Gnutella have been attacked by such organisations; Beware of Fake files in search results, as well as porn organisations attempting to protect their products, spamming samples of their works, generally in .mov format.

An old article, but it still applies now: Quality of Content on the Network (click on link)

thanks man, i just dont find it cute that people tag things like this and even if it isnt real, it still makes people ill. anywho, what cleaners do you recommend. i dont even know what to type in the search engine other than "computer cleaner"