FastTrack momentum grows with new licensee Grokster.

Related link: http://www.grokster.com

Another FastTrack licensee, Grokster, has emerged, showing that Morpheus/KaZaA growth is continuing.

I haven't yet found any features that distinguish Grokster from other FastTrack projects. On the whole the only difference between the various FastTrack projects is quality of GUI, I believe.

The installation program attempts to also install "HotText, a partner plugin to give Internet Explorer quicklinks." This is annoying but you can opt out. (Bearshare also sells hitchhiker rights on its downloads.) There is an opt-out to auto-start Grokster at boot time. There is an opt-out to subscribe to their newsletter. The installer didn't autofind my MP3 directory and didn't ask where it was.

You are required to give an email address, but the address isn't validated. Something about having to establish yet another user account first thing in the morning bugged me, so I decided to share this one. Username blablabla, password blablabla, email address blablabla@grokster.com.
Think of this as the categorical imperative at work -- if everybody shared their dummy account data, we'd all have fewer dummy accounts. Dummy accounts are the dark matter of the Internet!

The FastTrack network under Grokster appears, as always, healthy. A search for "Sonny and Cher" found a zillion entries, with about ten coming back within 30 seconds, and about 30 swarmable holders of the same version of "I Got You Babe".