morpheus was a file sharing and searching peer-to-peer client for microsoft windows, developed and distributed by the company streamcast, that originally used the opennap protocol, but later supported many different peer-to-peer protocols. on april 22, 2008, distributor streamcast networks filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy after a long legal battle with music companies; all of their employees were laid off and the official download at www.morpheus.com stopped being available, though for a small period the website remained online. as of october 29, 2008, the official morpheus website is offline, including all other websites owned by streamcast networks, specifically musiccity.com, streamcastnetworks.com and neonetwork.com.