Deep Throat

The term Deep Throat has several meanings:. When WinMX tries to find the FrontCode peer caches (central servers essential for the operation of WinMX), it is instead directed to look up one of the new peer caches set up by the WinMX community. Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 documentary about the 1972 movie. These patches work by modifying the DNS lookup WinMX uses to find peer caches. Deep Throat or Win32.DeepThroat is a computer virus. By September 25, 2005, users were able to download a working software patch for WinMX from two websites known as WinMX Group [2] and Vladd44 [3]. Deep Throat is the alias of a character in Metal Gear Solid. It is suggested for WinMX users to either apply a patch which would connect them to a user-driven WinMX network, or move on to a decentralized file sharing network such as Gnutella or the eDonkey network.

Deep Throat in the television series The X-Files. Under the threat of litigation, on September 21, 2005 the network and the WinMX homepage were confirmed offline. Deep Throat is the pseudonym of several fictional characters who have acted as a whistleblower:

. On September 13, 2005, Frontcode Technologies received a cease and desist letter from the RIAA asking them to implement filters to make it impossible for users to download copyrighted material from WinMX, or shut down. In general, the term Deep Throat has since been used for secret inside informers or whistleblowers. During March 2005, The NPD Group found that WinMX was used in more US households than any other P2P client or legal music downloading service [1], although this claim is disputed. Mark Felt. As a result, it took additional effort to find the available downloads from within the list, although with practice, this was easily done.

Deep Throat was the name given to the source in the Washington Post investigation of the Watergate scandal, revealed on May 31, 2005 to be former FBI associate director W. In many cases, one could see a desired file, but could not download it since most of the listed selections were inaccessible. Deep throating is a sexual act, a type of fellatio depicted in the movie. One of the major problems that led to the declining popularity of WinMX was the increase presence of "dummy" files, reportedly placed by individuals and/or companies opposed to file sharing. This is the origin of all the other meanings of the term. This turned out to be untrue. Deep Throat is a 1972 pornographic movie. In early 2004, rumors circulated in Hong Kong that the Hong Kong Customs Department was prosecuting people using WinMX to share copyrighted items.

WinMX is also especially popular in Italy and Hong Kong. However, WinMX's Japanese popularity dropped sharply with the arrest of several users, and resulted in the development of a semi-secure, encrypted, serverless application called WinNY (N comes after M, Y comes after X). By 2001 it was the de facto P2P application in Japan. WinMX was very popular in Japan due to its ability to handle 2 byte characters.

The client application Lopster used to have WPNP 2 support, although it was locked out with the arrival of WPNP 3. Some consider WinMX a much safer downloading program than Kazaa, partly due to the fact that no spyware and adware comes with WinMX. Downloads can be very fast for popular songs since the user can run a "multi-point download" that simultaneously downloads the same file in small pieces from several users. Frontcode had operated several cache servers to aid WPNP network operation.

WPNP version 2 was phased out as WinMX 3.0 and its WPNP version 3 protocol came into existence. WinMX began its life as an OpenNAP client capable of connecting to several servers simultaneously, although Frontcode later created a proprietary protocol, termed WinMX Peer Network Protocol (WPNP), which was used starting with WinMX 2 in May 2001. The official WinMX website and WinMX servers have been offline since September 2005 due to a lawsuit (see the "Decline" section below), though the application remains operable through third-party modifications. WinMX is a peer-to-peer file sharing program authored by Frontcode Technologies and running on Windows operating systems.