Thanks for the link, Jack.
The rough ride of Morpheus has put perhaps millions of p2p users on the move. This - much like Napster's demise - seems just to boost the p2p technology and the filesharing phenomenon itself. Napster's shutdown was a boost to the OpenNap scene and out of that scene emerged Music City's popular server cluster with enough people to give a great kick start to Morpheus and its new technology.
Gnutella clients have evolved a lot since their early days and many old characterizations of Gnutella are no longer valid. Well-proven technical ideas like supernodes and multisourcing have been introduced into Gnutella as well and this makes a big difference in connectivity and download speeds. The heavy influx of newbies into the network is just what Gnutella needs to test its present scalability and general functionality. And there is one thing that Gnutella has got right from the beginning: full decentralization which makes the network almost impossible to kill.
- tg
