question about morpheus
 

hello
im just wondering if morpheus is able to break the gnutella network
back the days with the FastTrack network there was an open source client for it called giFT.
But then, a "security update" and giFT wasnt able to connect anymore. If you wanted to have access to the network you had to use morpheus/kazaa.
Now my quastion is if this is possible with the gnutella network

thanks

karlnapf

No.

From what I understand of the FastTrack network, it's still server-centric meaning that all clients must connect to a central server of some sort. Changes to that one server could then potentially break the clients accessing it (that's apparently also how Morpheus was locked out of the FastTrack network).

But because the Gnutella network is pretty much based on open standards and there are no central servers that you must connect to, and the fact that there were numerous clients making up the Gnutella network even before Morpheus got here, it would certainly be a feat for Morpheus to somehow shut any other clients out. About the closest they would be able to come to doing so would be to alter the Gnutella protocol to essentially form their own network. However, they wouldn't be able to talk to the Gnutella network anymore if they did so and the Gnutella network would still exist without them.