Morpheus DOS'd and Moving to Gnutella

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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All I can say is...

[Matrim9]

Good riddence to FastTrack. This makes me very happy.

How the hell is this good news

[HanzoSan]

Gnutella is horrible. The design just sucks and honestly i could have come up with a better design for a network.

Gnutella is practically useless unless you have a broadband modem.

The benifits to using gnutella vs fasttrack are what?

Gnutella in order to be faster would have to be more centralized.

Fast track is more centralized and is similar to gnutella.

IF i were morpheus i'd use fast track until i can come up with a new peer to peer technology of my own.

Gnutella is flawed by design, Fast track is / was flawed by design. The best designs so far have been the WinMX design which works very well, the audio galaxy design seems to work very well,

I dont know, i like decentralized technology but Gnutella is horrible, theres no security (or maybe they finally fixed this?) meaning anyone can see your IP.

Its slow as hell, the design makes it difficult if not impossible to scale.

I'd rather connect to hundreds of small networks and search them all at once, than connect to one big gnutella style network.

Actually an agent based search feature would help

[HanzoSan]

Being able to type in an album and having the search find all the songs, download it automatically, organize them into folders and create a playlist.

Automation is the key. If this process could be stored as a command of some sort and sent to other peoples computers so that when you log off or shut off your machine the computers can search for and find all the files while your computer is off,then the location of the files be sent to you when your computer is turned on again.

I think rebol sounds interesting, Scripting sounds cool, i think automation is something that would take file sharing to the next level.

Not just automation, but perhaps an ability to use AI to figure out the type of music a user likes and doesnt like, and somehow use this improve search results for the music the user likes.

Like connecting to a network of all techno because the user downloads mostly techno, and have hundreds of little subnetworks created based on the music files people have on their computers.

so if you have mostly techno you connect to a group of techno networks, if you have mostly rap you connect to mostly rap networks.

Small networks of say, a few thousand users each while they may be somewhat centralized in nature, if theres enough of these networks its not like anyone would be able to stop it, and it wouldnt be morphues hosting it, it would be the users themselves.

maybw almost like direct connect or hotline, but your connection to these networks would be based on what you search for usually. If you search for many diffrent types of music you'll connect to some general network.
Music companies who would try to check up on whats on the network would most likely search from as wide a range as possible using some program or script, and would connect to a general network.

I dont know its just an idea and i have no idea how to technically do it, but something similar to how winMX works, using AI to discover the servers based on what users like, the discovery process would be whats automated