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Morpheus Infiltrates Other P2P Networks

Posted by simoniker on from the nobody-is-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Morpheus was the number one post-Napster P2P app until Sharman Networks took over KaZaa and got them bumped off the FastTrack network. Now Morpheus is back on FastTrack, according to MP3NewsWire, tapping into it and the other leading networks through a beta of the NEOnet technology in the just-released version 4. Thomas Mennecke over at Slyck speaks more about it with Michael Weiss, CEO of StreamCast Networks." prostoalex also points to a ZDNet article discussing this new version of Morpheus, and notes the Download.com warning that: "Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings."

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  1. Hmmhmm... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Informative
    "Third-party applications bundled with this download may record your surfing habits, deliver advertising, collect private information, or modify your system settings."

    Who cares?

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  2. legal? by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA starts:

    Morpheus 4 is Here and Legal

    Morpheus 4 is here and legal - "the only American file-sharing software ruled legal by a U.S. federal court," its owner StreamCast Networks boasts.

    But never says why and how, further more, how is it legal and supports FastTrack network at the same time?

    Anyway, FastTrack isn't the network it used to be, the quality of its files is getting worse and worse, many times you'll download something to find out that it was something else but renamed, I've switched to eDonkey long time ago, much better file quality, yes it's slower, but that is just fine with me as long as the file quality is OK.

    It's much harder to share fake files in eDonkey anyway, because of the file hashing and voting system.

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  3. MUTE 0.2.1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    January 21 MUTE 0.2.1 was released.

    http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/

    Jan 7 slashdot posting about MUTE 0.2

    Changes includes mention of a time out problem in win32 version fixed. I hope that also reduces the tendency for MUTE to abort downloads.

    It may be a bit wobbley in these early stages, but it's anonymous and doesn't install spyware and crap. Worth supporting if only by running it so there are more active nodes.

  4. so what? by trotzki · · Score: 5, Informative

    Discussion is already up on the MLdonkey Lists about possible infringement of the MLDonkey GPL License.

    MLdonkey connects to all kinds of Networks, as Edonkey, Overnet , Bittorrent , Gnutella, Gnutella2 and Fasttrack and that seems where the Morpheus NEOWhateverTech (insert your favourite marketing-droid-speak here) code comes from.
    BTW, apart from being GPL and from being written for linux originally, MLdonkey gives you a nifty web-interface which lets you search and download (at home) all sorts of stuff while hanging out at the office :-)