There are many alternatives out there to Napster, who continuing where Napster left off. Such new clients include Morpheus, KaZaA, iMesh and Limwire.
It is reported over 1.5 billion free movies, music, and software files were downloaded in September by users of the Napster alternatives.
“Downloading increased 56 percent in September compared with August, primarily because college students were returning to school, where they have access to high-speed Internet connections, Webnoize said.” (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...
http://www.musiccity.com MusicCity Morpheus
Morpheus is the number one downloaded file sharing software at CNET.com with 1,698,291 so far. Morpheus downloads include free music, movies, software, documents and images. Online stats from http://www.slyck.com/ “Morpheus/KaZaA 564,095 online users.
The Morpheus Peer-to-Peer Application: faster, better, smarter
Faster searches
Pure peer-to-peer network
Always Open connections to the Network
More simultaneous users for better search results
Self-organizing – any outages at MusicCity will have no effect on the rest of the Network
Fully encrypted to protect privacy, transmissions and unauthorized intrusions
SmartStream™ automatically resumes broken content streams by finding another source for the same content and monitoring the network until the requested content stream becomes available
FastStream™ increases the download speed of large files through the simultaneous transfer of content from multiple sources
Digital Rights Management – the Morpheus application allows content providers to deploy third-party digital rights management technology to protect the copyrights of their digital content distributed through the MusicCity network.
What is Morpheus?
A full-featured peer-to-peer file sharing application that allows users to search for all types of digital media.
A direct distribution tool that allows content developers unfettered access to consumers and customers.
A powerful search engine where you can search on ‘meta data,’ such as media type, category, performer, product name and more. Search results are grouped together so the same file will only be displayed once.
Embedded Microsoft media player functionality for audio and video playback.
Instant messaging within the network.
Playlist creation and media management tools to easily organize your media file collection.
Automatic network and CPU throttling to keep peer computer utilization under 10%.
The above information from http://www.musiccity.com.
http://www.kazaa.com Kazaa
Kazaa can boast 9.1 million downloads and the second most downloaded file-sharing software next to Morpheus at 1,158,607 downloads (week ending October 7) of the software from Cnet.com. Kazaa uses the shares its network with Morpheus and offers the same in downloads. Kazaa offers the same as Morpheus (see above) except for the client program, which can be downloaded at Kazaa.com version 1.3.3.
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