Bearshare RIAA Settlement. Transfer of ownership.

[Malakai1911]

"Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc., is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry. The conditions of the settlement were agreed to by the P2P company to avoid further copyright infringement litigation. " - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060505RIAAGoodbyeBearShareHello30M.html

A loss perhaps, but not a tragic one. The most popular Gnutella client at the moment appears to be LimeWire (and soon hopefully FrostWire), and of course those crazy Shareaza users.

It leaves me with a few questions.

I wonder what the GDF's take on the situation is.
I wonder what the heck iMesh is going to do with the BearShare client.
I wonder who here uses BearShare, and what they will be migrating to.

[Malakai1911]

Bump!

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[littlebits]

"Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc., is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry. The conditions of the settlement were agreed to by the P2P company to avoid further copyright infringement litigation. " - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060505RIAAGoodbyeBearShareHello30M.html

A loss perhaps, but not a tragic one. The most popular Gnutella client at the moment appears to be LimeWire (and soon hopefully FrostWire), and of course those crazy Shareaza users.

It leaves me with a few questions.

I wonder what the GDF's take on the situation is.
I wonder what the heck iMesh is going to do with the BearShare client.
I wonder who here uses BearShare, and what they will be migrating to.

The new owners will eventually turn BearShare into a legal paid service just like iMesh and filter out all copyrighted matterial. They are going to get rid of BearShareLite, right now the BearShare (regular) has a new spyware program from 180 Solutions called Zango spyware. You can't remove the spyware and use the newer versions of BearShare. I'm not sure what they plan to do with the BearSharePro users.


Read- http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22181

Most will just consider BearShare as a dead Gnutella client.

At least we will still have Limewire, Frostwire, Shareaza, KCeasy, Morpheus and Gnucleus that all
support Gnutella.

BearShare R.I.P.:icon_salu

[The Hunter]

Right now Im working on finishing my downloads, and after that I have no idea what Im going to use. I do know I cant go back to Ares, as it plainly does not have the content.

[meyou123]

Well if vinny gets out of a job, then that is reason to rejoice right there! As far as Bearshare....WHY would ANYONE still want to use it now that the scource code is in the hands of a company that is in bed with the RIAA??

I just can't understand it. I wouldn't touch that software with a ten foot pole. (Make that a 20 foot pole....I'll be a little safer!)

[The Hunter]

It doesnt really matter to me if they have the source code, as right now Im only sharing public domain files. Once my downloads are finished, the program is gone.

[lifehacker]

A loss, but not a great one. I prefer Shareaza Plus for Gnutella. And there still are plenty of other Gnutella clients.

[The Hunter]

Shareaza is a program I havnt tried, Im trying not to be prejudiced, but with the spamming they did here, it still leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. This spamming was done with the full approval in their forums.

[lifehacker]

I dont know, I dont think I was here when they were spamming but I understand where you're coming from. Nevertheless, Shareaza is a great program, and also I think Shareaza Plus was not developed by Shareaza's developers but by someone else who used Shareaza's sourcecode.

[The Hunter]

I have an open mind, so what kind of info do you have on Shareaza Plus? Also as I havnt tried Shareaza, what are the abilities of it, as I have no use for torrents, except for linux downloads, and I dont need anything relating to a 4 legged critter with long ears. LOL

[lifehacker]

Well as you probably already know Shareaza Plus connects to Gnutella 1 and 2, BT and ed2k. The big difference between Shareaza and Shareaza Plus is that Shareaza connects to more ultrapeers than the normal Shareaza dramatically increasing the speeds, but also slightly hurting the network.

[VAMPYRE BLADE]

Hunter, use emule, it has the best content, it may not be the fastest, but it has tons of stuff you will want, cant hurt to try it. its all i use, i would rather find everything i want and wait alittle longer for it to download :)

[shawners]

Do what I have done. Join usenet. All honestly, its simply the best. Your getting speed, security, content, support. I have tried them all, i get all the stuff before any other p2p network gets it, i do provide access to what i download or help seed on private BT. But as far as anything, the only thing keeping me away earlier when i first joined, i just didnt have the right newsreader to obtain binaries. I cant tell you how vast the content is on it, or how many movies keep appearing and appearing. Great older movies, great new movies, cult classics, different rips of what you want. SVCD, XVID, DVDR, DVD9, even people posting rat movies if you want. People post things and put a REQ for a movie, and later others upload it and its awesome away people use their time to provide for others.
Just do a search on things you like at binsearch.info to see what popsup, sometimes they dont update things fast enough but look at nfoforce.nl and vcdquality.com for the new releases. Music scene is posted on different places, mp3shitter i believe. Bearshare was an APP to join gnutella. They all lead you to same queue line.

[lifehacker]

What I currently use is a combination of BitTorrent (uTorrent with private trackers) and Shareaza Plus. The combination has been working flawlessly for me.

[The Hunter]

OK, first off, Im not interested in being the first with a file as I have more songs, and movies that I will ever need. Im mostly in it for the fun of sharing. Tried the mule, and the donkey. Found them both wanting. For me its about speed, and the files I want, few though they may be. I dont run the pc all night, but while Im on, I want to smoke the uploads. For us a movie that I download is a time filler, be it a porn flick that her or I want to watch, "yes ladys do watch porn at times", or a preview of a movie that we want to see at the theater. For us a movie, is an evening out, a date if you will. Supper, and an evening together. Im a romantic old cuss. Its more about the caring, and sharing, rather than seeing how many files I can get. Did that sound right?

[Ne007]

I like KCeasy and Shareaza for Gnutella. Both very good.

I stay away from limewire and use it only as a last resort...ALOT of fake results and viruses. Reminds me of Kazaa.

[lifehacker]

For me its about speed
If you want speed go with BitTorrent or UseNet.

[The Hunter]

Hum, i use torrents for linux downloads now. Im thinking about spamazza, as an alternative.

[Sephiroth]

I think its kind of sad with all the plugging that goes on here there is about a page and a half of just plugs in this news story alone, I've noticed it alot in other news and help threads as well its seems to be out of control and pretty ridculeous.

The thing about gnutella programs is that once they are released that is it, even though the program changed hands the released verison still act as they usually do. So for a while there is no need to jump to some other program.

If you want a program that uses the same network as bearshare does and has good support then your best bet is a program that specializes in gnutella. A program like limewire would be a good gnutella alternative to look at, it uses the same network as bearshare so youd be getting the same results. Almost all the programs mentioned here gnutella support is average at best by multi-network programs which use that support to push people to its own network or programs that are on a entirely different network.

I think its sad that some people here who want us to believe support p2p, celebrating a victory for the RIAA against any p2p program is just wrong. Because the next one they target and gets shut down may be your favorite program/network...

[littlebits]

I basically use Shareaza, it is the best P2P program that I've ever used so far. It was wrong for them to spam other forums, but Shareaza never got as popular as the others did. I guess they was just trying to advertise a great product but in the wrong way. For Shareaza Plus, it is just too bloated and connects to many unnecessary ultra-peers and G2 Hubs and the preformance is no better than Shareaza's is.
All you need is two G2 Hubs and two Gnutella ultra-peers to get excellent speeds. Shareaza Plus connects to an insane number of both, killing your internet connection and uses up too many resources.



Thanks.:icon_scra

[evilmegaman]

well... Back to ares for me... It's kinda sad though. I think bearshare was just becoming really great. They should've gone open source before they handed it over

And about shareaza plus, It's bad for the network and actually slows things down. If you use shareaza plus, you're using an old version of shareaza that's hacked to hurt the network. And it slows down your speeds in reality IIRC.