It's interesting that Spyware is still off topic in the GDF. I did read the mentioned thread and the response are.... well, a good work for spyware lobbyist Bearshare and Limewire.
In the last days I found more articles popping up, mentioning Morpheus, Kazaa, Limewire or Bearshare. Usually I read words like fooling users, parasites or electronic pick-pocketing.

Here is a Babelfish link to a translated german news page:
http://babel.altavista.com/urltrurl?...p=de_en&tt=url

Also the the New York Times reported:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/te...gy/27FREE.html