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For Immediate Release: March 1, 2002
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Morpheus Preview Edition Brings Cutting-Edge Interface, Increased Performance and Gnutella Based Architecture - Available for Immediate Download on Download.com
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Franklin, TN.—March 1, 2002— StreamCast Networks, makers of the most popular peer-to-peer file sharing product, Morpheus, today announced the Morpheus Preview Edition. The Morpheus Preview Edition is the newest version of the Morpheus product, which allows millions of people to connect directly and share information.
Morpheus provides the best user experience available due to its ease of use, rapid download capabilities and powerful search tools. Software products like Morpheus are transforming the Internet as we know it into a more connected, programmable, and searchable network with many incredible uses. To date, Morpheus has been downloaded nearly 70 million times and averages 4.5 million unique users daily. This makes Morpheus the most popular P2P software product ever.
"StreamCast has always and will always continue to make strides in uniting the P2P world and providing access to this amazing communications medium despite the malicious actions taken by others this week against Morpheus users to harm their user experience," said Steve Griffin, chairman and CEO of StreamCast Networks. "Our goal is to provide the best product possible to our millions of users and to work with other companies in the P2P space to help the technology thrive. We hope that the entire P2P community can come together and find common ground to help in the advancement of this amazing technology."
Morpheus Preview Edition provides users with a fantastic new interface, increased performance and a new architecture to connect to the Morpheus User Network.
Morpheus PE is Even Easier to Use
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New, easy to navigate interface. |
Morpheus PE Provides Better Results with Access to More Information
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Enhanced search capabilities displaying unlimited results! |
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Rapid download acceleration to speed the delivery of content. |
Morpheus PE Does Not Support Spyware
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Spyware is programming that is put in someone's computer to secretly gather information about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. StreamCast, unlike other peer-to-peer software providers, remains committed to always maintaining a free software product without spyware. |
Morpheus Remains Committed to a Decentralized Network
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Morpheus ver 1.3.3 resided on Kazaa's Fast Track protocol combined with StreamCast’s own proprietary software. Morpheus Preview Edition will reside on the Gnutella open protocol architecture which allows Morpheus to connect to millions of new users worldwide. |
“While we have been interested for some time in the possibilities of uniting the FastTrack and Gnutella architectures, going forward with an open-protocol network in a decentralized environment is ultimately most important to us,” said Darrell Smith, CTO of StreamCast Networks. “The combination of the Gnutella protocol, with our own proprietary architecture, is going to provide our users with the best experience possible, including an increase in performance. It really is the best solution for our users.”
Morpheus brings the Internet back to its roots when every computer on the Internet is both a client and a server forming a more extensible and programmable Internet in which every user is both sender and receiver. Morpheus breaks new ground with its potential to create new applications at unprecedented scale and ease allowing people to buy, sell and exchange public documents, literature, pictures, video, journalism, social commentary, music and more.
StreamCast made the decision to introduce the Morpheus Preview Edition earlier than originally planned to ensure its millions of users can resume immediate connection to the Morpheus User Network. The new version was expected to be announced in a few weeks. The previous version of Morpheus, Morpheus ver 1.3.3, resided on Kazaa's Fast Track protocol combined with StreamCast’s proprietary software. Kazaa's recent unexpected migration to FastTrack ver. 1.5 forced incompatibility between Morpheus and Kazaa’s and Grokster's versions.
About StreamCast Networks, Inc.
StreamCast Networks, Inc., creators of the Morpheus software product, is a leading global communications technology company that is revolutionizing Internet digital media distribution and communications via a unique software-driven solution that enables users to communicate directly with one another more efficiently on an unprecedented scale. StreamCast Networks is backed by Timberline Venture Partners, the independently managed Northwest affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, as well as angel investors. StreamCast Networks, Inc. operates the MusicCity.com website, which distributes the Morpheus software product. StreamCast Networks is based in Franklin, TN with offices in Phoenix, AZ. For more information about StreamCast and its flagship product Morpheus, please visit www.musiccity.com.
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