Gigatribe
GigaTribe is free software that allows users to create their own private peer-to-peer network. GigaTribe users select folders on their hard-drive that they wish to share with friends within their network. Friends can then browse each other's hard-drives and copy (ie. download) files to their own hard-drive. A premium version exists which also give users the option to let members of their network write files to their shared folders.
Nobody can join a user's network without his acceptance, and vice-versa; therefore, each user is his own network's administrator. Unlike other peer-to-peer networks where files are obtained from large numbers of unknown users, with GigaTribe, users only share files with people they know within a private network that they've created.
GigaTribe features include: no size limits on files or folders exchanged, interrupted file exchanges resume with no data loss when connections are re-established between users, chat-rooms (both private and public) between connected users, multi-source downloads (available in the premium version only), optional password protection of folders, different groups can be created (ie. "friends", "family", "co-workers", etc…) with the possibility of assigning different access rights to each group.
Launched in 2005, GigaTribe's website reports them as having over 400,000 registered users.
Developer: Shalsoft
Operating sytstems: Win 2000/XP/Vista
See also
- Private P2P