The next Napster: MORPHEUS.. why is this not gettn Sued/shutdown?

[CuriousAndy]

I don't get it why? is it just a matter of time?

just what do u mean not 'centralized?' Napster connects peer-to-peer too doesn't it? I don't get it

~andy

 

[yobarman]

sucker...there's no like central database or anything..the server is everyone elses computer so you'd have to get rid of everyone's computer to completely shut it down

 

[pulse8]

no one to sue, really...napster had a central server and that was really their downfall...also, I think the RIAA is starting to recognize that they can't stop online file-sharing and are probably figuring out other options...

 

[KeyserSoze]

<< sucker...there's no like central database or anything..the server is everyone elses computer so you'd have to get rid of everyone's computer to completely shut it down >>




Giddy-up. He's right. Who they gonna shut down? Once it starts, it spreads like wildfire.



KeyserSoze

 

[NetGuySC]

I can't explain in detail. But from what I have read it is much harder to stop Morpheus for it is not centralized like Napster. I wish I knew more details

 

[pulse8]

lol...JINX!

 

[MaxDSP]

<< no one to sue, really...napster had a central server and that was really their downfall...also, I think the RIAA is starting to recognize that they can't stop online file-sharing and are probably figuring out other options... >>



...options guaranteed to be 0% effective

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

If this is the case then what's been going on with audiogalaxy and the filtering that they've started?

 

[LordJezo]

You guys already forget about Gnutella? Thats the program that started this whole decentralized server buisness.

The MPAA has already figured out how to stop it: they are getting the IPs of individual users and going to their ISPs and demanding that they be shut down if they keep using the service.

 

[Aihyah]

yup gnutella started it i think harder to use though. anyhow, napster is sorta like a tree, and morpheus is sorta like a web. no central server. you make a queery and it hops around from comp to comp is my understanding.

 

[StageLeft]

The MPAA has already figured out how to stop it: they are getting the IPs of individual users and going to their ISPs and demanding that they be shut down if they keep using the service.

Geeze thats a lot of computers to shut down!

I've also heard that some of these file sharing progs are basing themselves out of the US, often in rather dumpy countries, where stopping this sort of thing is very low on the priority list.

RIAA will lose this, as we've known for years. You can't fight the future. You have to work with it. Its a hard lesson for them but in time they'll learn. Shutting Napster was a step forward in their efforts, but they're simply walking on a treadmill which is going faster than they're walking!

 

[Kazi]

<< You guys already forget about Gnutella? Thats the program that started this whole decentralized server buisness.

The MPAA has already figured out how to stop it: they are getting the IPs of individual users and going to their ISPs and demanding that they be shut down if they keep using the service. >>



umm yea... imagine all the IP Addresses - 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 - good luck finding all those IP#'s
You would basicly have to shutdown the internet all together. Cause Gnutella, Morpheus, KaZaA, and other similar programs are all over the net. Sharing MP3's? Please you get a friend to copy it to his HD and send it via AIM or ICQ or even Email. There virtually is no way of stopping it without shutting down the internet!