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...Harvard student was threatened with the termination of his network access by his senior tutor’s office last week for “copyright infringement” through the file-sharing service Gnutella...
...Gnutella follows in Napster’s footsteps as a file-sharing service through which one computer can access files on another—a system often used with copyrighted material. While Napster involves the transfer of music files, Gnutella allows the transfer of videos...
After that came a list of "begats." Napster begat Gnutella, which begat LimeWire and so on, until the world had (at last count) 176 brands of file-sharing software. But none quite caught the imagination as did their progenitor. They were too slow, or too hard to understand, or couldn't reach more than 40,000 users at the same time without using the same kind of centralized server that got Napster into so much fire and brimstone. One that came very close was BearShare, built in a couple of months by Florida programmer Vincent Falco. "It offers a little...
That's because Morpheus links users to other users in a big game of telephone, much as Gnutella-based software like BearShare does. The difference is that anyone can grab the Gnutella code and produce their own conflicting versions of it (think too many cooks). But Morpheus has been honed to perfection by MusicCity's tech wizard, Darrell Smith. "We've been nurturing our network," he says. An advantage of that: as of September, Morpheus will do one-stop searching on the Gnutella network as well...
...Enter Morpheus (available at Musiccity.com), developed by a Dutch company called FastTrack (yes, this is something else to thank Amsterdam for). The second you download it, you know it's different. There's no off-putting server sign-on sequence like in the Gnutella programs. No lengthy process of scanning for music on your machine like Aimster makes you go through. Just a search page that returns results at a speed not seen since Napster. This is partly the fact that FastTrack is so focused on the end user experience, and partly the fact that plenty of people are using...