gothgurl6669 opened this issue on Feb 25, 2002 ยท 68 posts
Kelderek posted Tue, 26 February 2002 at 2:36 AM
Answer to JDexter: The reason that Napster was brought to court while Morpheus is still out there is simple: Napster used a central directory of all the files, the directory resided on a server owned by Napster. Therefore it was easy to crack down on them by claiming that they helped piracy by running the directory. Morpheus is a true peer-to-peer application, There is no "Morpheus Inc" that you can bring to court. All the files are on the users hard drives, and when you search for a specific file, you do the search on all the PC's running Morpheus that are connected to the Internet at that very moment. Even if you sued the people that wrote the Morpheus source code and made them stop distributing the application, there will still be users out there running the it on their PC's and exchanging the files. It is not as easy to stop Morpheus as it was to stop Napster.