Morpheus - bigger than Napster, apparently - bites the dust (via a bizarre and labyrinthine set of circumstances which I really care little about). And rapidly reincarnates as a cheap knockoff of the Gnucleus gnutella-net client.

I hadn't imagined it was possible to make a "cheap knockoff" of a GPL application, but the Morpheus/Streamcast guys managed it: take source, add adverts, palm off on an unsuspecting and mildly desperate clientele! Meanwhile the Gnutella gnetwork is holding up well. If you want untrusted neighbours and a limited search-horizon, Gnutella scales impressively - the ping-floods meltdown scenarios are ancient history.

Question for C|net: is that really 53 million downloads in two days?