RSSMorpheus Touts P2P Interoperability in New Beta
By David Worthington | Published January 22, 2004, 7:27 PM
StreamCast Networks is trying its hand at peer-to-peer interoperability. While interoperability long been cause celebre among operators of real time communication networks, StreamCast has embraced the ideal to become the first P2P file sharing client to scour all major networks simultaneously.
Morpheus 4.0 enters the fray following a recent U.S. Court of Appeals ruling making it more difficult for the recording industry to round up illegal sharers, and reports of an upswing in online music swapping.
A beta of Morpheus 4.0 announced earlier this month searches beyond its own network into the domains of eDonkey, Gnutella, Grokster, G2, iMesh, LimeWire, Overnet, and others. StreamCast's NEOnet technology powers searches and strives to find content with greater accuracy.
The identity of file sharers is masked behind integrated access to public proxy networks, and a series of client side options. Like other popular file sharing applications, Morpheus has integrated anti-virus protection.
Other incentives to swap with StreamCast include multiple concurrent searches, multi-source downloads and complementary voice-over-IP (VoIP) chat. Morpheus 4.0 does not contain spyware, according to the company.
The concept of P2P interoperability has left the Recording Industry Association of America fuming. An RIAA spokesperson told BetaNews, "This just shows how easily they can adjust their software when they chose to. It is too bad they chose not to adjust it to filter out copyrighted works."
Although the RIAA faces a major setback in its anti-piracy campaign, its lawyers have filed a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 532 individuals.
The lawsuits are referred to as "John Does" due to the fact that the RIAA must now comply with a court ruling forbidding it from forcing ISPs to reveal the identities of customers. The offending IP addresses must be each subpoenaed in court through due process before personally identifiable information is revealed to the RIAA.
This most recent action by the RIAA comes amid press reports of a reemergence of P2P file sharing activity following months of steady decline. StreamCast contends that Morpheus violates no laws by simply enabling users to swap files.
what the open source gift protocol has been doing for some time now? i know that on the mac and linux, we have a boatload of apps that access kazaa, gnutella, etc.
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|This story is incorrect. A very nice client, called Shareaza has been available for a good while now, and has offered interoperability between P2P protocols since it's introduction. It supports Gnutella1, Gnutella2, Bitorrent, and eDonkey, maybe more...just can't remember for sure. Morpheus has sucked in my opinion since Sharman Networks pulled the plug on their original software...but that's just my opinion. :)
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|I posted a guide at Winbeta.org on how to remove all the spyware... AD-AWARE AND S&D DO NOT FIND IT!!!
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|hehe the easiest way is not to install Morpheus
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|After installing the stream client, Trend antivirus found a virus in the file BPC.exe which is part of the instller. this trojan redirects to a streaming html file which is invisible.. you have been warned.
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|"StreamCast has embraced the ideal to become the first P2P file sharing client to scour all major networks simultaneously"
They may be embracing the ideal, but Shareaza already has the capability to scour all major networks and has had it for some time.
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|Morpheus is the worst program. first of all it finds nothing and if it does find it it only gets on average 2 sources. and its also full of spyware how gay.
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|I had problems with some P2P's before this one, but this new Morpheus works really well. I have XP and Norton firewall installed and this program works fine. I have no pop-ups. I got files from Kazaa too without all that desktop stuff. I already had the my search bar software installed. My firewall stops any ads. No problems here. Also, was able to search and download on all networks,..including edonkey. All that Spyware rumor crap is posted by jealeous software competitors. My scanner detected no Spyware in the new Morpheus, otherwise I could not put it on my computer.
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|How gay??? What are you, in 5th grade? Grow up.
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|and of course you took the time to read the agreement which says plainly that MY SEARCH BAR will be installed , which is a piece of spyware, amongst others probably.
Piece of advice. Don't trust a firewall to stop spyware.
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