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This product is intended to trade songs and videos transversely the Internet using “peer to peer” (P2P) networking.

It works like this: thousands of customers install WinMX on their PCs, and freely open their hard drives to each other. As these thousands of people log on to the Net using WinMX, the pool of available WinMX hard drives changes moment-to-moment. Every WinMX user is authorized to search for songs and movies, and then begin downloading and uploading music files to each other. Equitable sharing of music and movies is endorsed, and people will often share gigabytes of files with their fellow WinMX users.

This WinMX P2P network system employs its own custom file sharing client software, created by FrontCode Technologies. The WinMX is highly controversial software because of copyright laws, and WinMX users do risk possible fines and lawsuits.