Is the “UserLog” provided by Atlantic in Exhibit A something made by the Limewire application?
A. The list in that format is certainly not something that LimeWire or any other Gnutella client I know of could produce. LimeWire only displays information that could be of some use to the user. Some other information (such as the SHA1, which is obbledygook to most people) is used internally, and some is not used at all. The protocol is designed to take up as little network bandwidth as possible while still giving users the right amount of information and allowing the program to work. Information contained in a single search result (as of right now, atleast — the protocol is always evolving) includes the file name, SHA1, size, metadata (such as license, artist, album), creation time, some other hosts who have the same file, and possibly a limited number of other things. File attributes aren’t maintained by most Gnutella clients because they’re essentially useless in a networked environment. Each reply can have a dictionary of arbitrary attributes, so any Gnutella client can include a
