By Jon Newton - p2pnet.net

Morpheus 3.2, being prepared for release next week, will, "provide users with increased security and anonymity to protect users privacy," says the p2p application owner StreamCast Networks.

Responding to the RIAA's sue 'em all announcement, Morpheus has also announced its support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) initiative, Let the Music Play.

"We do not condone copyright infringement, but we will not sit idly by and watch the recording industry trample on the rights and privacy of individuals," says Michael Weiss, StreamCast ceo. "While the recording industry calls file-sharers pirates, we have a much stronger name for them - VOTERS - and we will do whatever it takes to help them have their voices heard."

Anyone visiting the Morpheus website or opening the app will be able to send an instant and automatic e-mail message to their congressional reps,"demanding to keep file-sharing legal and to change the US copyright law so that artists get paid," says Weiss.

Morpheus is the worst filesharing program ever. EVER.

They claim to not have queues. So then, that'd mean, if 100 people want to download to me, lesse, I'll just divide 12K upload by 100... whatda I get, yep, a WONDERFUL 0.1K download speed for all wanting a file from me. What a gh3y @$$ P2P.

We need everyone to wake up to change the law. I feel that Paying artists is a good thing, and that we can pay artists for P2P, and it is a win-win for both.

What's significant here is that if Madster uses encryption to keep data such as the user's identity, location, and IP address private - no matter how weak it is - the RIAA would have to lobby to get their own law repealed to get the information.

That is, until they pass a law outlawing internet encryption.

Of course, 1st amendment advocates... AND the US Military would freak at that.

-- Funksaw

It looks like this is another reason the RIAA is going to use to sue everybody and there mother. They will cry "P2P is helping people hide". Just wait, all will see.

I'm suprised that after a week the RIAA hasn't reported who they've found yet...

Funksaw: The DMCA only preventes people produceing, owning, selling or using tools to break a system which "controls access to a copyrighted work".

you cant stop people finding out your IP, but you can make it very difficult if you dont mind using a lot of bandwidth on proxys.

Funksaw: The DMCA only preventes people produceing, owning, selling or using tools to break a system which "controls access to a copyrighted work".

you cant stop people finding out your IP, but you can make it very difficult if you dont mind using a lot of bandwidth on proxys.

their claims are false, the no queres is in the GnucDNA that they use as the core, but the GnucDNA doesn't let you have no queres, so they are lieing there. Also according to the LGPL if they make changes to the GnucDNA, such as some security stuff that they are claiming to do, they then will have to release the source, and they have had a history of not wanting to do that.

Morpheus is the worst filesharing program ever. EVER.

They claim to not have queues. So then, that'd mean, if 100 people want to download to me, lesse, I'll just divide 12K upload by 100... whatda I get, yep, a WONDERFUL 0.1K download speed for all wanting a file from me. What a gh3y @$$ P2P.

The main problem with Morpheus is that they had to change from the FastTrack to Gnotella server. The Gnotella server doesn't work that well compared to the FastTrack server that Kazaa and a couple of other P2P programs use.

mtekk, unless they changed something, morpheus has always been open source. but the software.

oops, but the software sucks.

Morpheus sucks. What is the point of using it? Gnucleus is just as good, and it dosn't have stupid ads.

Gnutella as a whole sucks, the content is severly lacking. Good protocol, god awful content.

RCcar: Gnotella whats that? if you mean gnutella, well you happen to be incorrect, gnutella is far superior to the spinoff FastTrack. Morpheus does just plainly suck.

jmweirick: 2.x was closed source violation of the GPL and since they now use GnucDNA as the core, which is lisenced under the LGPL which allows them to have a closed client and use the GnucDNA, but once they make a change to the GnucDNA they either have to release the source to the rest of us, or they have to give the changed files to the developer and the developer accepts the changes, if he (Swabby) doesn't accept the changes then it needs to be released by Stream Cast as Open source.

Gnucleus is 100000% better than that Morpheus spinoff, The betas that really rock, arn't avalible for the public unless they can compile it, yet ans Gnucleus 2.0 is still a few months from release. But on the plus side, GnucDNA/ Gnucleus now supports Triger Tree; Magnet links amd Bizti support is on the way, along with possible G2 support.

My own project is only a few months until I call apon beta testers, but that's going to be around September/October time, could be too late after the evil RIAA tries something.

Magnet links was just a spinoff of eMule links, if you want a serverless, better gnutella, just try overnet..

It is in the best interests of the p2p apps companies to take such a position.

The only thing we need to be weary of is merely replacing the corporate labels with p2p apps that end up being just as restrictive and evil. For the time being it is a good thing for us to support p2p in general, but we need to be ever diligent and keep the playing field as level as possible.

Speaking of p2p, fairforshare.com is due online today!