WinMX is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn in Windsor, Ontario .
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10 Facts About WinMX
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WinMX continues to be used by a community of enthusiasts.
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WinMX began its life as an OpenNAP client capable of connecting to several servers simultaneously.
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When WinMX tries to find the Frontcode Technologies' peer caches, it is instead directed to look up one of the new peer caches set up by the WinMX communities.
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Commencing in May 2011, the WinMX network had been under protocol level attack from a disgruntled community developer who disagreed with those operating the network support infrastructure .
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WinMX has a file-size restriction limiting shared files to 2GB in size.
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WinMX allows a person to host chatrooms with its built-in Chat function.
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WinMX started out as a Peer-to-Peer program that connected to OpenNap servers.
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WinMX is natively English, but language files can be installed to translate menus into the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sardinian, Spanish and Swedish.
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