Cnet.com reports something that doesn't suprise me. While almost every company that is into filesharing is using adware/spyware or any other way to make money, Morpheus seemed one of them that was free of all this. Know we know this isn't the way to go.
According to Niklas Zennstrom, the founder of FastTrack/KaZaA, Morpheus didn't pay it's bill for licensing the technology developed by FastTrack and that is the basis of KaZaA, Grokster and Morpheus:
progressively more extreme statements, StreamCast Networks Chief Executive Steve Griffin has characterized the shutdown as an "attack" on his company and on the millions of people who used the Morpheus software. Bulletin and chat boards around the Web have been buzzing with conspiracy theories, ranging from a competitor's sabotage to plots by the record industry. |
But in its first public statements since the blackout, Dutch company Kazaa BV, which provided StreamCast with its peer-to-peer technology, said there was a simple explanation.
"MusicCity (also known as StreamCast Networks) has failed to pay any amounts due to Kazaa BV under the parties' license agreement," Kazaa BV founder Niklas Zennstrom wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "As a result of MusicCity's breach, Kazaa BV did not provide version 1.5 to MusicCity. Kazaa has also terminated MusicCity's license."
Zennstrom did not provide details on how the Morpheus software could have been shut down as a result of the fee dispute. StreamCast has said that Kazaa BV was able to change settings stored deep inside Morpheus users' computers as they logged on to the file-trading network.
Well it's pretty easy to block the other software by updating your own software and have it block Morpheus users.
It's also obvious that Morpheus didn't have the right business model. Well I guess everybody should go over to Grokster, and if you are afraid of the spyware, then get rid of it as described here. In the mean time I will be waiting for gIFT
Source: Cnet.com
