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"This is the second nForce 415 based motherboard which were able to grab up. For the new TechH fans I would like to highlight that the first board was Abit`s NV7-133R which proved itself very strongly not only against the current KT266A platform but also against even upcoming KT333 platform. Today also we`ll measure the muscles of the ASUS board loaded with nForce 415 chipset with the Abit NV7-133R which is again nForce 415 chipset based Mainboard along with various well known Socket A solutions."
Shenanigans
The Register reader Haavard Pettersen's recent experiences suggest someone had indeed tampered with people's computers to prevent them from using Morpheus.
When Pettersen tied to use an older version of Morpheus (on a Windows 98 partition), which he hadn't used since before Morpheus went down, he discovered to his surprise that it still worked.
In XP, he couldn't get either old Morpheus or Preview Edition to work, incidentally.
Russ Spooner, a security consultants at Interrorem and former Morpheus user, confirms Pettersen's experience.
"Clearly the Fast Track client part of the software (used in KaZaA, Grokster and Morpheus) has a backdoor in it that allows the knowledgeable few to fire special packets at clients logged into the Fast Track network which will enable them to modify registry settings," Spooner told us.
"It would appear that for a period of time they had effectively a login script sitting on the authentication servers that basically said 'if (client==morpheus ){ modify registry}'," he added.
The offending login script has now been removed, he notes, so now the original clients work fine, "just so long as they were not exposed to the evil pathogen".
Sharman Network Services is yet to respond to this latest allegation, and we'll fill you in if and when it does.
Both Morpheus and KaZaA are embroiled in copyright violation lawsuits brought against them by the music industry. Yesterday StreamCast Networks announced plans to use digital rights management technology called CintoA to protect the copyright of independent artists, while allowing its users to continue sharing free files.
Whether this will appease its critics, such as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, seems doubtful.