Tech: Morpheus problem

Subject: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 06:54 PM

Hi,

Since this morning, when I try to open Morpheus, I get the message:

"Your version of Morpheus is too old to connect to the network. Please download updated version from www.musiccity.com"

I've been to the musiccity site, and the only download I can find is for the version of the software that I already have!

I've downloaded and reinstalled it just to see, but I still get the same message.

Any ideas?

Jim

Subject: RE: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: SeanM
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:00 PM

To be honest?

Contact Morpheus tech support.

M

Subject: RE: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: M.Ted
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 06:43 PM

Set your clock back and see if it works again--at your own risk, of course--I did this with my old Napster and got a very nice message explaining that someday, Napster might actually work again--Of course, when you use these file sharing systems, I have been told that you are stealing from the Music Industry, and if everyone did it, there would be no profits, and the whole music business would dry up and blow away--no more N'Sync, no more Creed--

Subject: RE: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: GUEST,Jim,
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 06:54 PM

Nope, that didn't work

US sales of CDs went up whilst Napster was active, btw

Jim

Subject: RE: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: GUEST,anglitorra
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:05 PM

Open it again and it will tell you, "One of our software providers amde a significant upgrade to their technology that is currently incompatible with Morpheus." They seem to be well aware of the problem. I'd say just check back in a couple days. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful.

Subject: RE: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: M.Ted
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 09:27 PM

The record companies claimed that their big selling albums, like N'Sync and all that stuff, weren't selling well on in college campus areas because the students were downloading instead of buying, the flaw in that logic is obvious, but they weren't trying to be logical, they were just trying to make money--I am sure, if they could get away with it, they would try to collect royalty fees at registration, for the recordings that they felt students should have been buying--

Subject: RE: Tech: Morpheus problem
From: SeanM
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 11:01 PM

As much as I am a defender of P2P programs like Napster, Gnutella and the like -

There WAS a decided drop in the sales of the mainstream acts. Not much of one. And also not something the artists would ever feel beyond the record labels inflating it and passing it along.

That being true, for every 'big name' act that a major label lost a tenth of a decimal place on, there were other smaller independent groups that gained valuable exposure that are now shut out of the new 'pay to trade' models that the record labels have created as the acceptable (for them) model.

It'll all work out in the end. Every time that a service goes down, a host of new non-centralized services spring up. And every time that the major labels figure out a new encryption, someone with too much time and equipment will break it and disseminate that knowledge to the cogniscenti.

The unfortunate side is that the average buyer loses all the way around. We've lost the ability to preview before buying, research and listen to new acts that would otherwise not likely be heard (I've a collection of Great Big Sea, Young Dubliners, Tempest and a few others that bear that out. Wouldn't have even known about them beyond occasional mentions here, wouldn't have bought them had I not heard them online). There's an ongoing fight to strip consumers of their right to copy for their own use recordings that they purchase.

Sad.

M