Am I the only person that sees that phrase as being completely ridiculous? After all, if one does fight fire with fire, you get a bigger fire...causing more problems.

Still, it seems to be the most popular suggestion on here..."block Morpheus clients" is the popular suggestion, and admittedly, the most convenient solution.

Gnutella is a network that was created on the idea of sharing without limitation...if LimeWire (which I think everyone will agree seems to be the most efficient and well programmed client for the network currently) starts blocking Morpheus, what's next? I get BearShare clients sometimes as well...block them? Anyway, you see where it's heading. I've got a slightly different idea...

Howzabout the developers for LimeWire and the developers for Morpheus try to come to some agreement? After all, they really are the two super-powers in the world of Gnutella.

I have a slightly different reason for suggesting this...I run primarily on a Macintosh platform. If I start looking for Macintosh files when there are only Morpheus (an up until now Windows exclusive program...another thing they could learn from the folks at LW) servers up, how many Macintosh files do you think there are going to be listed? ZERO! Goose egg! Because Windows users think that Macintosh users (this is a really broad generalization, I know, but when 99% of encounters support the theory, you begin to accept it as fact) are totally retarded and useless. But we make stuff pretty (Mac users are predominantly artists).

Now, if Morpheus opened itself up to the Mac platform...that might change things. However, I have a feeling that unless someone attepmts to persuade them to do so, they won't even know that there's this whole other platform out there being used by a good 297 million users that, at present, aren't earning them any money.

Of course, that's one solution, and an extreme one at that. Here's another...does anyone think that the people at Morpheus might be persuaded to change their policies for their clients? Say, to enable the freeloader policy? Again, Gnutella is intended for sharing, not taking. In that sense, freeloaders SHOULD be prevented from accessing other users' files.

Professional collaberation and courtesy...and perhaps it's a dumb idea.