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Post number 13984

milnak — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:32:27 -0800

Kazaa halts downloading at least until a court decision. Does this really matter, as you're only blocking distribution of the client from the kazaa site. The "servers" still run, and people can still download the client from any other site.

By: SweetJesus

SweetJesus — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:49:04 -0800

This is ironic...... I went to re-download Kazaa last night, because after running ad-aware on it and removing it's spyware componates, it wouldn't work. Oh well, there's always Direct Connect or something.

By: ttrendel

ttrendel — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:07:54 -0800

I'm sure this is still relatively easy to get through eDonkey. Just run a serach for kmd.exe.

By: kickerofelves

kickerofelves — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:01 -0800

Morpheus runs on the same network as Kazaa and accesses the same files. Plus, Morpheus is promising access to the Gnutella network with it's next release.

By: wibbler

wibbler — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:53:00 -0800

how come Morpheus is allowed to continue when Kazaa isn't?

By: tsarfan

tsarfan — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:07:23 -0800

this is a bell that cannot be unrung. last year we called this Napster. this year it's KaZaA. i call it the number one killer app since since Word and i will buy a drink for whatever teen genius creates the next one.

By: nedrichards

nedrichards — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:27:19 -0800

Kazaa's a Dutch company I believe and Morpheus is a US company. Whether Kazaa can shut either the FastTrack network or themselves doesn't really matter now, the distributed cat is out of the bag and nobody is ever going to have to pay for music ever again. IMO (never humble) it will say something abnout society whether we can sort out a means to pay our artists fairly or whetehr we'll jut drive them all out of business.

By: dlewis

dlewis — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:34:38 -0800

The OpenFT project is aiming to make an open source, ad-free implementation of the FastTrack protocol. Not sure how much progress they're making, but they did do a very impressive job of reverse engineering the encrypted search protocol a while back. The fun thing about FastTrack/Kazaa/Morpheus/Grokster is that although the search protocol is encrypted, the transfer protocol is just plain old HTTP. If you know someone's running a copy of Kazaa on say, host www.metafilter.com, then you can pull up their file list in a web browser by loading http://www.metafilter.com:1214/ Of course, it's finding the computer with the file you're looking for in the first place that is the hard part.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:09:28 -0800

Is Morpheus considered as chock full o' spyware as Kazaa?

By: willnot

willnot — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:03:14 -0800

Of course, it's finding the computer with the file you're looking for in the first place that is the hard part. Google to the rescue? Seriously, for all that Google should focus on their core competencies stuff that surfaces whenever they come out with a new search feature, if they could bring their genius to locating music on line (and not get sued out of existence which is why this is more fantasy than probability), then that would pretty much rule. And as long as I'm dreaming, what if they cached the files too so that even if the host machine went off line you could still access the songs?

By: CrayDrygu

CrayDrygu — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:30:44 -0800

"Is Morpheus considered as chock full o' spyware as Kazaa?" Morpheus has no spyware. Ads, but no spyware.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:52:14 -0800

Ah, but Google can already be used to find MP3s. Here's how. Props to machaus...

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:22:59 -0800

Morpheus has popup ads. It opens a browser window on occassion in addition to the ads in the program window.

By: gd779

gd779 — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:55:55 -0800

Morpheus has popup ads. It opens a browser window on occassion in addition to the ads in the program window. No it doesn't. At least, not as of version 1.3.3. You've probably got some spyware left over from Kazaa or some other such program: try ad-aware. And, on Morpheus, if you want to get rid of the ads on the bottom of the screen, I highly recommend Skallas' host file.

By: gd779

gd779 — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:56:57 -0800

(Kazaa can open a browser window even when it's not running.)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:07:13 -0800

Minor point, perhaps, as Morpheus is an excellent tool, but this No it doesn't. At least, not as of version 1.3.3. You've probably got some spyware left over from Kazaa or some other such program: try ad-aware. is not strictly true, for me, at least. Morpheus still pops up the rare ad window (blocked by the hosts file, which I use), and I am, at least according to ad-aware, spyware free. Regardless, I recommend it.

By: majick

majick — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:38:58 -0800

I know I'm getting to sound like a broken record, but whenever someone mentions pop-up ads, I'm more or less obligated to point out The Proxomitron again and again. It'll easily filter out the JavaScript that's executed to pop 'em up. I never see ads in Morpheus or anything else, thanks to this thing and -- once again -- the Waldherr version of the venerable but still quite servicable Internet Junkbuster. With these two tools in place, you get to kaibosh far more ads than the hugest hosts file is going to catch.

By: nedrichards

nedrichards — Sat, 19 Jan 2002 06:03:36 -0800

AllTheWeb has a really good mp3 search. They're from FAST a very nice norwegian search engine. The Opera of search engines.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 20 Jan 2002 05:18:18 -0800

This guy's actually selling his mp3s. Obscure ones only, or so he says. He claims the cost is to cover the money out of his pocket, but at a minimum order of $4 for one song, sounds like a scam to me. He also claims to "assume no responsibility is involved with violating copyrights, royalties, etc.." but isn't it correct to say the very act of selling copyrighted works is infringing on copyright law? Even the work of garage bands can be copyrighted. Heck, if there was a legal way to do this, I would have been selling mp3s years ago.