Morpheus DOS'd and Moving to Gnutella

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 2, 2002 @03:10AM from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

wackysootroom writes "According to a message from the CEO of Music City, a group of individuals has launched a DOS attack and tampered with the morpheus network in order to disallow logons to the FastTrack P2P filesharing network through the client. According to the CEO's note, the hack involves changing registry settings on the client's machine (ouch) and rerouting the messages destined for their ad servers. The good news in all of this is that morpheus will be giving up the proprietary FastTrack network for a Gnutella based filsharing system." It's an icky framed page and you have to click through to read the really interesting parts, but it looks to be true. Wonder how Gnutella will handle the growth spike.

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Re: The real story here by sam_handelman · 2002-03-02 04:36 · Score: 4, Redundant

Moderate that post up!

Just in case no-one does moderate him up, I'm reposting his link with my bonus. I can't be whoring because I'm capped :). All credit due to the guy I'm responding to.

Excellent journalism here.

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Re:Grokster w/o spyware by juju2112 · 2002-03-02 05:37 · Score: 1, Redundant

Has anyone mirrored this program onto a decent server? Looks like it's just a dead link now.