winmx and many p2ps were shuttered by their owners in response to civil take-down notices received late last summer, the end result of a protracted legal battle decided last june in the riaa's favor by the us supreme court. the original wpnp connection servers are no longer in operation. there are some work-arounds using independent peer-client/servers that allow connections to a smaller community, and if you do a little searching here at this forum and elsewhere you'll find more information, but unfortunately the grand centralized network that moved petabytes of content and was known by many affectionate fans as winny has followed the original napster into history.
with the coming of newer file-sharing protocols and particularly with frontcodes' refusal to update the client and address the exasperatingly long queues, it's fair to say most members had long since moved elsewhere.
still, the application remains a favorite among certain users and i expect a winmx-based network will continue in a much reduced form for as long as there's a dedicated fan base willing to do the work needed to keep it going.
- js.
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