Now that BearShare has split from the Gnutella netowkr, is BearShare still good, is there lots of users/files still... or is it kind of dead now?






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Bearshare sucks anyway. Long live shareaza

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bearshare hasn't really left the network... its adding features tho, that WHEN selected, will allow only other bearshare clients. so make sure that any "authorized connections", "authorized transfers", etc. are all turned off.

Originally posted by isus
bearshare hasn't really left the network... its adding features tho, that WHEN selected, will allow only other bearshare clients. so make sure that any "authorized connections", "authorized transfers", etc. are all turned off.
Also, these selections are turned "off" by default. If someone really wanted to be a freeloader, then they'd just turn off sharing completely.... something you can do with almost ANY client.

I think its sh*tty and backstabbing that bearshare even went here with this, using all of us to get what their users want and not sharing what they have with us. Who needs a oneway one sided p2p like that? The whole idea is to share not take :finger to bearshare!!!!

um...bearshare does share with the gnutella community. they didn't "backstab" any one. is any one pissed at winMX for making it's own network instead of using openNap? no, but why are people pissed at bearshare? it's the same scenario

Maybe they like getting automated copyright violation threat e-mails and having their downloads corrupted or replaced by some porn ad or something?

I download from bearshare all the time...I don't get it..I use gnucleus and am able to get files from bearshare users but they always have wierd properties.

I just don't understand all this in-fighting. I run as a Shareaza ultrapeer and have no shortage of Bearshare clients, all to happy to tap into the 9000 hosts and 2+Tb of files that I network.
Cheers,
Phil.

this is a direct response by them to the "rogue clients" in the salon.com article http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/08/gnutella_developers/index.html
--they can keep out qtraxmax and shareaza and their excessive overquerying clients and try to maintain a stable network

Originally posted by kevo_tool
Bearshare clients just aren't friendly to non-bearshare clients.

Any proof? Any other gnutella developers care to back you up? I doubt it...

Is Bearshare still loaded with adware and spyware? If so, is there a lite version or something along those lines?

Is Bearshare still loaded with adware and spyware? If so, is there a lite version or something along those lines?

I was thinking of trying it out, but not if it has spyware. Has it?
Cheers,
Phil.

Originally posted by PhilT


I was thinking of trying it out, but not if it has spyware. Has it?
Cheers,
Phil. [/QUOTE]

Yes, at least the last time I checked it... there are two version one with Spyware and one "PRO" version... the "PRO" version costs ONLY $19,95.

Morgwen

20$??? I can get two CDs for that much!!!?What is the point of filesharing when you have to pay to do somethin illegal?:mellow :bk

Wait for it, wait for it....

Originally posted by PhilT


I was thinking of trying it out, but not if it has spyware. Has it?
Cheers,
Phil.

The one with "spyware" you can uncheck at install options i dunno they might have changed it..

The betas which you can find out where to get them here (http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=556) doesnt have anything bundled but they are betas so you might encounter a few bugs if you find any problems then make a post about it on the bearshare labs so it can get fixed..

Here's how it is. Straight up, no bs. When installing Bearshare. There are combo boxes which show up. In these combo box. You have selection of which to install. Make sure you read these items, select only Bearshare and maybe icon. There you go, no spyware. As for adware. You have the search panel which contains a built in ad like a web page. This disappears when running a search. When first loading Bearshare, you might get one ad(no program, like blubsters). That its. How can we expect these companies to make this software for us and not make anything. Or even to hire lawyers in case the riaa comes after them. We should be sticking up for these companies. I dont blame them for wanting to make some change from eight hours of programming. As for what im getting out of it. I dont mind an ad in the search panel or even an ad popping up on start up. I am getting free cds which at times, could cost me 18 dollars and scratch easily. 5 cds at $18 = $90 Sounds like a deal to me. ;P

Dont get me wrong though. The programs such as kazaa etc which install these programs unwillingly is wrong.

Yep, it's full of spyware and adware...so...BEWARE!

Originally posted by dreams
5 cds at $18 = $90 Sounds like a deal to me. ;P

Yes...

but there are other clients for "free" without "usefull" adware, this sounds like a much better deal. :blah

Morgwen

Yes...

but there are other clients for "free" without "usefull" adware, this sounds like a much better deal. :blah

Morgwen

Try Limewire, Bearshare and Limewire are the two top Gnutella1 clients, Limewire is free, open source, and contains NO -ware. There are no popups with Limewire either.

Want to know the one and only reason Bearshare installs filth? It is NOT open source, so they have to make money to hire/pay people to work on their software...they are cutting their nose off to spite there face.

Bearshare does have spyware, but they also make an OFFICIAL lite client:

http://www.bearshare.com/lite/

Granted, it still has all the bandwidth restrictions that the spyware version has (but, for that matter, limewire does the same thing) - b/c, of course, they still want you to upgrade to the pro version :-/