iMesh and Morpheus to add proxy support

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Saw this on Slyck yesterday.


Morpheus to Use Proxies To Anonymize Users
July 13, 2003
Ciarán Tannam

Following the recent announcement by the RIAA that they would go after individual users there has been a surge in interest in P2P tools that claim to protect users identities. Now StreamCast Networks and iMesh Israel Ltd have announced that the next versions of their products will help protect user identities.

StreamCast has told Mercury News about how they will protect user identities. Starting next week Morpheus will enable users to use a list of public proxy servers. Proxy servers enable the users IP address to be cloaked as the proxy server that sits between P2P users. It seems that StreamCast will not operate proxy servers themselves but will redirect users to existing ones.

Meanwhile iMesh have said that they will be using the music industries tactic of spoofing to make detection of users more difficult. They will "plant decoy computers from fake locations that trade non-existent files".

These latest moves by iMesh and StreamCast follow moves by Blubster. Blubster have removed the ability to view all the files that a user shares and other measures. While P2P tools that protect identities such as FileTopia and EarthStation 5 have been gaining popularity in recent weeks.


http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centr...ws/6294695.htm