Ok here's my limited review of Morpheus...
I punched in a search "latin porn" -- I was able to download several full size movies anywhere from 4megs to 100+megs... only very few of these movies had ads or URL's...
It seems I downloaded the same movies several times (different keywords) just different sizes, compression, duration, etc. -- that was annoying (ie: good for us ;) The downloads were pretty fast -- you just click "find more servers" and the shit hauls ass...
I think the lack of a preview is what kills this "service" -- but the descriptions can be useful and I didn't find too many bogus files. I think this is because the crappy content doesn't spread as fast because it is not shared between everyone... The most popular files seem to get shared the most and come up higher in the search results...? I think I'd prefer using Morpheus over surfing websites if I was looking for free movies just because the movies are longer. Also the fact that you can just type in keywords makes this program way better than any movie website -- free or pay.
I guess if you are in the content biz you could always release your content on there free with your ads... and get traffic... on the flipside though I don't think your content will be spread through the Morpheus system unless it is *good* content... In other words don't bother trying to share anything too short, over edited, or with too much advertising -- or there will be no "snowball" effect.
Morpheus does have plenty of annoying ads -- and popups -- I don't see how they can claim that it is decentralized. Somebody is banking on this. 23 million downloads! Shit!
I hear some talk about this program,
http://www.kazaa.com/ -- it seems that Morpheus is using the technology of KaZaA -- so maybe KaZaA is even better than Morpheus -- I have not tried KaZaA yet...
[This message has been edited by TheFLY (edited 10-26-2001).]