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WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software
application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features
instant messaging, chat rooms & file browsing/sharing capabilities. The
name WASTE is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49,
in which it is an acronym for "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire". In the
novel, W.A.S.T.E. is an underground postal service.
After its release, WASTE was removed from distribution by AOL, Nullsoft's
parent company. The original page was replaced with a statement claiming
that the posting of the software was unauthorized and that no lawful rights
to it were held by anyone who had downloaded it, in spite of the original
claim that the software was released under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.
Several developers have modified and upgraded the WASTE client and
protocol. The SourceForge edition is considered by many to be the
"official" develop
