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Kazaa Admits to Morpheus Shutdown

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pulling-the-plug dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "KaZaa yesterday admitted to CNET that it was behind the shutout of Morpheus from the FastTrack network. Their reason? The company didn't pay its bills. Still, there has to be more to it than that for KaZaa to cut them off so quickly and unexpectedly, especially since a P2P network's power lies in the size of its audience. There is some weird cat-and-mouse play going on here that can only be damaging to both sides in the upcoming trial against the RIAA and MPAA in California."

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  1. It's not the reason, it's the method. by AltGrendel · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Not paying bills is certainly a justified reason for shutting down a service. But I don't like the idea that they used a back-door to change user settings.

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  2. Blah Blah by fire-eyes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm almost getting sick of hearing about this, eh?

    However I do wish both sides would just spit out what the hell is going on.

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  3. Re:oh, come on... by inerte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Morpheus needs a subscription services that charges 5 dollars for each 1000 downloads, and the users will complain that the network is made of things produced by them.

    (no pun intended!)

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  4. Open Source anyone? by RatFink100 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If it had been an Open Source client you would have had the ability to make sure there *are* no backdoors.

    Or to put it another way - if you want to be sure that the software you run doesn't change your settings only run open source software.