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aMule is basically the successor to eMule, which is the successor to the freeware eDonkey2000, which by the name you can tell is quite old. Anyways, the main point of eD2K is that it relies on a server that anyone can host using a freeware app called eserver, to which clients connect.
So instead of torrents, which are shared between each peer without a centralizing server, eD2K needs thoose servers.
Ohhh more like SoulSeek. Okay okay. Very cool. Thanks for the info!
A significant difference to soulseek is that you always upload what you have downloaded to other clients, like bittorrent. You are also downloading parts of a file simultaneously from many different (or one) peer partner.
Oh right, totally forgot SoulSeek isn’t distributed like that. Very cool. Might have to check this out and do some treasure hunting. I love stumbling across old odd files on stuff like this.
Overnet FTW
The servers just index the files people are sharing. Basically what you are saying is the same as saying that In the torrent world you also need to use a server (the tracker).
The same way you can search the mesh directly in bittorrent, you can use KAD in emule to search for files. No server required.