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Maybe I’m too young and missed an era, but what is this? I mean I understand it’s a peer to peer file sharing protocol and network (might be using wrong terms), but what does that actually mean as far as the end user? Basically a private tracker but one “layer” further up? Sort of bridging the gap from Usenet to BitTorrent? ELIF by all means! I’m curious about this.
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.
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.